April 2018

The Billion Times Rule and How to Use It

Suppose you want to launch a startup, or some other world-changing innovation. You want to disrupt the blah blah market or fundamentally transform how people blah blah. Do it well, and maybe you can make a billion dollars. That’s the core of the argument, right?

Whatever you’re trying to do, you’re probably hoping to create dramatically more impact than you do today by launching something that didn’t exist before. And that added impact ought to create added dollars in your bank account. What if I told you that logic is backwards?

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The Behavior Change Hack I Use Every Day

Habits suck.

At least the bad ones do– the ones that take up space and crowd out the good ones. When we’re talking about creating better habits, we’re also talking about getting rid of the ones that allow us to resist the habits we really want, without even thinking about it.

Habits are routines that trigger cognitive autopilot, which feels effortless. So the trillion dollar question is:

How do we make the habits we want to have feel effortless,
while the habits we want to break already feel effortless?

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