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Superhuman By Habit

Tynan

8/10
I really enjoyed this book, I think it does a great job explaining all the essentials of how to built habits in a very approachable and easily readable way
  • Its nice to leverage unthinking work in getting to goals, due to limited will power
  • Think very long term with habits (they take a long time to build but pay off forever)
  • Consistency is everything, never skip twice, Doing it crappy one day is better than nothing at all
  • Plan for Variance, have a concious plan for how you will deal with it or what smaller version you will do when x comes up (travel)
  • While building you will need to push through brain lazyness
  • Take pride in the process, not the results
  • Be honest with current standing relative to goal
  • 2 types of people, those who find it easier to add vs those who find it easier to subtract
  • Intensity of the habit should match your goals
  • Your motivation should be long terms and deep
  • Maximizing consistency and minimize intensity
  • Don't build habits that can be automated
  • Beware of triggers for bad habits (boredom -> eating or socail media). Try and replace habit from trigger
  • Habits to try
    • postive re-framing. When ever you have a negative thought, think of one postitive aspect (doesn't need to overwhelm the negative just needs to exist)
    • postivity towards others, give people the benefit of the doubt always. Try to remember they're just like you, trying their best with what they have right now
    • Eat better, (details to be researched in more dept)
    • Exercise better? (details to be researched in more depth) but he said 3 days a week. Deadlift, pullups, rows. bench, inclined bench, curls. squat, straight leg deadlift, cable crunches. Deadlifts of both kinds are 2 sets of 4 - 6. Pull ups are 3 sets of 4 - 6, everything else is 3 sets of 8 - 12. Couple warm up sets at 50%, then 75%. Then 100% of max. Then drop weight by 10% and same number of reps plus 1. until now more sets. If you hit the maximum in the range the previous week, increase weight by 5 - 10 pounds and reset at the bottom of the range.
    • Push out of your comfort zone, if you aren't doing something because you're scared/nervous do it anyways (in fact that should be your trigger)
    • Get rid of stuff you haven't used in a year
    • When you want to quit, keep going until the 3rd time, then quit to avoid burn out and regulate yourself
    • Plan when stuck (start at the beginning of tasks or the end of the goal achieved and brain dump tasks on either end)
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