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Day one of a habit is an inertia problem. Day 89 is a boredom problem. The challenge changes as a habit ages, and naming the level you're on tells you which fight you're actually in.

Featuring: Angela Duckworth

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Three weeks of planning a habit I never started. The first step felt too steep. I set a timer for one minute, worked on the launch, and did it again the next day.

Featuring: Octavia Butler

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John Rawls wrote a thought experiment about the original position. Imagine you're behind a veil, about to be born, but you don't know where.

Featuring: Warren Buffett, Frederick Douglass, John Rawls

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You can be consistent and still be dying. Every habit has a hurdle rate: the minimum input it needs to clear the entropy working against it. Show up below the rate and you lose ground daily, even while the streak holds.

Featuring: Lewis Carroll

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I ran for half an hour and ten minutes became my new normal. Most habits break because the daily target has no room above it. Put the habit on a range with a floor and a ceiling, and the ceiling buys the buffer that keeps the habit alive on bad days.

Featuring: Alexander Suvorov

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Every rule I set to stop scrolling at night broke until I added jazz. Imperfect substitution beats failed abstinence because it leaves you with progress while pure willpower leaves you with nothing.

Featuring: Mark Twain

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I sat down to play one game of chess. Twelve hours later, I deleted the app.

Featuring: Tristan Harris, Sean Parker, Reed Hastings

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Great operators run two stacks every day: the work stack and the distribution stack. This episode maps how writers, founders and investors build both, and why one stack alone leaves great work unseen.

Featuring: Haruki Murakami, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Ray Dalio, Sara Blakely, Howard Marks, Maya Angelou, Yvon Chouinard, Brian Chesky, Naval Ravikant, Jack Dorsey, Tim Ferriss, Marc Andreessen, Cal Newport, Patrick Collison, Peter Thiel, Austin Kleon, Pieter Levels, Tyler Cowen, Ryan Holiday, Casey Neistat, Paul Graham, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Hayao Miyazaki, Stephen King, David Lynch, Mason Currey

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Three years of zero income ended in two hours because someone in a room saw what I couldn't. The five things a mastermind does that solo work can't replicate.

Featuring: Jim Rohn

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Charlie Munger said this when asked how to live a good life. Your learning rate is your investment rate.

Featuring: Charlie Munger

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