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The Power of Small Habits: My Takeaways from Atomic Habits, Chapter 1

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D ave Brailsford's strategy - "the aggregation of marginal gains." The philosophy of searching for a tiny margin of improvement in everything I do. If I break down everything that goes into who I want to be and increase it by one percent, I'll get a significant increase when I put them all together. Find one percent improvements in overlooked and unexpected areas - continue to. If I can get one percent better each day for one year, I'll end up thirty-seven times better by the time I am done. Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.   A slight change in my daily habits can guide my life to a very different destination. Success is the product of daily habits, not once-in-a-lifetime transformation. Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. Breakthrough moments are often the results of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change. The most powerful outcomes are delayed. *The Valley of Disappointment: ...