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The realities of this world are hard work, preparation, negotiation, determination, commitment, honesty, and charity.
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Unprofitable investments and expensive toys will almost always be the byproduct of having more money than one needs.
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Nature doesn’t really care whether you feel good. It selects for traits that improve survival and reproduction.
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In setting rules for how to behave in the future, you’re often in a calm, cool state, so you make unrealistic commitments.
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What [begins] as a precommitment [turns] into something permanent and more valuable: a habit.
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Once you’re committed to following a bright-line rule, your present self can feel confident that your future self will observe it, too.
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..there are three basic forms of punishment: severity, speed, and consistency… the most important facet of punishment – and the most difficult one for parents – is consistency.
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…the basic steps of self-control: setting clear and attainable goals, giving instantaneous feedback, and offering enough encouragement for people to keep practicing and improving.
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Thinness has become a status symbol because it’s so difficult for ordinary people to achieve unless they’re genetically lucky.
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Precommitment helps you avoid the hot-cold empathy gap… the common failure to appreciate, in moments of cool deliberation, how you’ll feel in the heat of later moments.
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