- Aggregation of marginal gains - too often we focus on the "major" - Habits are the compound interest of life - slow transformation is hard - success is a product of daily habits not a once in a lifetime event - we should be more concerned by our trajectory than position - outcomes are a lagging measurement of habits - habits either compound for or against you - habits appear to make no difference until they reach the tipping point and explode - habits are not linear in change - compounding process means the most powerful outcomes are delayed - have to cross the "plateau of latent potential" - change can take years until it happens all at once - Valley of disappointment exists between the linear "what I think should happen" and the compounding interest of "what really happens" - avoid this - Goals Vs Systems - Goal is what you want to achieve - System is the process that gets you there - If you ignore the "goal" and focus only on the system, can you still achieve the goal? - yes most likely - Achieving the goal changes life for the moment; building a system changes life for good - fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves - true long-term thinking has to be "goal-less" - You don't rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems.