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…build identity-based habits. With this approach, we start by focusing on who we wish to become.
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The more you ritualize the beginning of a process, the more likely it becomes that you can slip into the state of deep focus that is required to do great things.
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…if you want to be truly great, selecting the right place to focus is crucial.
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Mastery is the process of narrowing your focus to a tiny element of success… and then using this new habit as the foundation to advance to the next frontier of your development.
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A good product is designed with focus on the set of needs that are important and that make sense to address together.
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Rewards, by their very nature, narrow our focus. That’s helpful when there’s a clear path to a solution. They help us stare ahead and race faster. But ‘if-then’ motivators are terrible for challenges…
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…rewards narrow people’s focus and blinker the wide view that might allow them to see new uses for old objects.
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Like all extrinsic motivators, goals narrow our focus. That’s one reason they can be effective; they concentrate the mind. But as we’ve seen, a narrowed focus exacts a cost.
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…extrinsic motivators – especially tangible, ‘if-then’ ones – can also reduce the depth of our thinking. They can focus our sights on only what’s immediately before us rather than what’s off in the distance.
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Many times a concentrated focus makes sense… But in less dramatic circumstances, fixating on an immediate reward can damage performance over time.
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