6 best ideas of James Clear on success, kindness and mastery

Every week James Clear, the author of the book “Atomic Habits”, shares a wide range of ideas and quotes. I have picked 6 of them which I really feel have the potential to change our perspective.

James Clear on success

“Success is never due to one thing, but failure can be.

Sleeping well won’t make you successful, but not sleeping well will hold you back. Hard work is rarely enough without a good strategy, but even the best strategy is useless without hard work.

Many things are necessary but not sufficient for success”

“Most failures are a one-time cost. Most regrets are a recurring cost.

The pain of inaction stings longer than the pain of incorrect action”

James Clear on Kindness

As I discussed in my previous article, Emotional Intelligence plays a valuable role in our life. As kindness is an important aspect of empathy and empathy is a valuable emotional intelligence component.

“Compliment others more.

You will barely remember you did it, but the other person may never forget that you did.

Kindness has unlimited upside.”

“The longer I live the more I notice how valuable it is to do one simple thing: be kind

– When someone does a good job, tell them.

– When someone makes a mistake, forgive them.

– When someone tells you their problem, listen.

Being kind barely cost anything.”

James Clear on Mastery

” The highest level of mastery is simplicity.

Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but the only expert knows what to ignore.”

“Mastery require both impatience and patience.

The impatience to have a bias toward action, to not waste time, to work with a sense of urgency each day.

The patience to delay gratification, to wait for your actions to accumulate and to trust the process.”

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