It's the environment, stupid!


When healthy food is available and junk food isn’t, you eat better.

When your phone’s in greyscale and you delete social apps, you look at your phone less.

When you set up automatic transfers to your savings account, you save more.

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This is not me. It’s science.

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It’s not just willpower.

It’s not just discipline.

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Your environment does set the rules.

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When you set up the scene, you model your willpower.

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Do you want to do more exercise?

Prepare your clothes, your shoes… or create a gym at home… make it impossible to miss.

No distractions? Send your mobile phone to hell, disconnect internet, put your favourite playlist…

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Habits and environments.

That simple.

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No wonder why if you stick around successful people, you tend to be successful yourself. You enter in an environment that favours success.

And if you stick around complainers, weak people with not that great mindset… you’ll become one of them.

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Here you are something, I learned by sticking with successful people, create an environment and try things myself.

​Is this piece of real estate a good investment​

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