[[The Slight Edge]]: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness (Olson, Jeff) - Your Highlight on page 155 | Location 2375-2376 | Added on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 6:14:19 PM The upper curve is the formula for success: a few simple disciplines, repeated every day. The lower curve is the formula for failure: a few simple errors in judgment, repeated every day. ![[slight-edge.png]] - Your Highlight on page 163 | Location 2499-2502 | Added on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 6:24:10 PM The early part of both curves is fairly flat, so it can certainly look like you’re moving along on a nice, even keel, heading neither up nor down. But appearances can be deceiving. (And usually are.) In a constantly and rapidly changing world like ours, you simply cannot remain the same as you were yesterday. You are in motion—you have no choice in that. But motion in which direction? You have total choice in that. - Your Highlight on page 164 | Location 2502-2506 | Added on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 6:24:56 PM You are either improving or diminishing in personal and professional value. You are building toward greater happiness and fulfillment, or deeper unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Your relationships are growing deeper and richer, or growing more stale and distant. You are learning more and more about the truths of life, or slipping deeper and deeper into denial about the truths of life. You are building your long-term security and financial freedom, or dismantling it. And your health is building day by day … or ebbing slowly away. - Your Highlight on page 179 | Location 2738-2740 | Added on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 6:40:18 PM The two paths may be so close together that it’s almost impossible for most people even to see the distinction between them. Then, all of a sudden, they veer away from each other, the success curve shooting up like an eagle and the failure curve plummeting downward like a stock market crash. #clipping