The Best Minute: Habits, the math of success, and finding time
1 IDEA FROM ME
Time is a positive or negative thing based on your habits.
If you have good habits, all you need is time. Results are coming.
If you have bad habits, time is not your friend. Consequences are coming.
Don’t worry about time, worry about habits.
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I. James Clear on the math of success:
Results = (Hard Work X Time)^Strategy
Working hard is important, but working on the right thing is more important. A great strategy can deliver exponential results. Of course, the best strategy is worth nothing if you never get to work. Zero to the millionth power is still zero.
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II. Author Julia Cameron on how to find the time to write (or do anything):
“The ‘if I had time’ lie is a convenient way to ignore the fact that novels require being written and that writing happens a sentence at a time. Sentences can happen in a moment. Enough stolen moments, enough stolen sentences, and a novel is born — without the luxury of time.”
I INTERESTING FACT
It is essentially impossible to pick a perfect March Madness bracket (and it has never been done before).
Here are the odds of a perfect NCAA bracket:
1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (if you just guess or flip a coin)
1 in 120.2 billion (if you know a little something about basketball)
Your chances will increase with more knowledge of the current teams, the tournament’s history, and an understanding of the sport itself. For instance, before UMBC’s historic upset of Virginia last year, it was practically a guarantee that all four 1 seeds would win their matchups (they’re still 135 for 136 through the modern tournament’s history), giving you four automatically correct games to start off with. But that type of knowledge is near impossible to quantify or accurately factor into an equation.
Source: NCAA
1 QUESTION TO LEAVE YOU WITH
Based on my habits, is time on my side or against me?
P.S. Unconditional love.
