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…for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

To build an effective new habit, you need five essential components: a reason, a trigger, a micro-habit, effective patience, and a plan.

…if you don’t know what triggers the old behavior, you’ll never change it because you’ll already be doing it before you know it.

There are three parts to the formula: identifying the trigger, identifying the old habit, and defining the new behavior.

…there are just five triggers: location, time, emotional state, other people, and the immediately preceding action.

We are often more triggered by the person giving us feedback than by the feedback itself.

While identity is easily triggered by evaluation, it is far less threatened by coaching. It’s almost like getting a free pass.

When you’re triggered, your internal voice goes from mere assistant to armed bodyguard.

Threats to our values, to our self-image, and to what we care about most signal danger and trigger acute stress.

One of the great secrets to getting ideas and increasing your productivity is utilizing the function-follows-form phenomenon – great tools can trigger good thinking.