7 habits that’ll get you ahead of 95% of people in their 20s:
Solitude.
Learn to enjoy your own company.
Travel alone.
Take walks alone.
Go to cafes alone.
Learn to be happy alone so you don’t waste your life chasing validation from others.
Delaying Gratification.
Every day, your dopamine is being drained.
• Phones
• Social media
• Hyper-palatable foods
This causes you to hop from stimulus to stimulus.
Over time, you become like 90% of people…
Unable to focus for more than 5 minutes.
Make it a daily habit to delay gratification.
Pick 1 habit:
• Writing
• Reading
• Meditation
Anything with no immediate reward.
Practice it for 5 minutes and up the time every session.
Over a period of week/months, you’ll develop laser-like focus.
Writing.
Writing is focused thinking.
It forces you to develop 1 idea at a time.
Just like your body can’t build muscle without exertion, your mind can’t build understanding without exertion.
Block out 1 hour a day - no notifications, no people - and write.