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The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Jeff Olson
4.07 AVERAGE
199 reviews for:
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Jeff Olson
4.07 AVERAGE
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Highly repetitive. All the different examples across different life areas are useful but the book could be 2/3 in length & be just as effective
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Nice inspiring quotes and practical tips for implementing what he advocates. Can't really argue with the advice. A similar book is Atomic Habits which basically advocates the same approach.
Quotes:
Once I got a little way above survival and was starting to head up into the warmer waters of success, without realizing it or thinking about it, I would stop doing the things that had gotten me there. Naturally, I would then start sinking back down again, back down toward survival and beyond, back down toward the failure line.
“little virtues” or “success habits.” I call them simple daily disciplines. Simple productive actions, repeated consistently over time. That, in a nutshell, is the slight edge.
“Do the thing, and you shall have the power.” -Emerson
“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. You get busy living, or get busy dying.” —Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption
The difference that will make all the difference between success and failure, between achieving the quality of life you want and settling for less than you desire and deserve, lies not in whether you take those actions or not (because we all do), but 100 percent in which of those mundane actions you choose to do
Gandhi put it this way: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Stephen Covey’s immortal phrase, start with the end in mind
1. Show up: be the frog who jumps off the lily pad. 2. Show up consistently: keep showing up when others fade out. 3. Cultivate a positive outlook: see the glass as overflowing. 4. Be committed for the long haul: remember the 10,000-hour rule. 5. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith: not hoping or wishing—knowing. 6. Be willing to pay the price: sometimes you have to quit the softball team. 7. Practice slight edge integrity: do the things you’ve committed to doing, even when no one else is watching.
There are three simple, essential steps to achieving a goal: 1) Write it down: give it a what (clear description) and a when (timeline). 2) Look at it every day: keep it in your face; soak your subconscious in it. 3) Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started.
“Gentlemen, this is a football.” —Vince Lombardi
Quotes:
Once I got a little way above survival and was starting to head up into the warmer waters of success, without realizing it or thinking about it, I would stop doing the things that had gotten me there. Naturally, I would then start sinking back down again, back down toward survival and beyond, back down toward the failure line.
“little virtues” or “success habits.” I call them simple daily disciplines. Simple productive actions, repeated consistently over time. That, in a nutshell, is the slight edge.
“Do the thing, and you shall have the power.” -Emerson
“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. You get busy living, or get busy dying.” —Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption
The difference that will make all the difference between success and failure, between achieving the quality of life you want and settling for less than you desire and deserve, lies not in whether you take those actions or not (because we all do), but 100 percent in which of those mundane actions you choose to do
Gandhi put it this way: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Stephen Covey’s immortal phrase, start with the end in mind
1. Show up: be the frog who jumps off the lily pad. 2. Show up consistently: keep showing up when others fade out. 3. Cultivate a positive outlook: see the glass as overflowing. 4. Be committed for the long haul: remember the 10,000-hour rule. 5. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith: not hoping or wishing—knowing. 6. Be willing to pay the price: sometimes you have to quit the softball team. 7. Practice slight edge integrity: do the things you’ve committed to doing, even when no one else is watching.
There are three simple, essential steps to achieving a goal: 1) Write it down: give it a what (clear description) and a when (timeline). 2) Look at it every day: keep it in your face; soak your subconscious in it. 3) Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started.
“Gentlemen, this is a football.” —Vince Lombardi
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Olson's take on the genre is both creative and constructive, giving readers more than just a mere nudge.
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