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• Have a clear vision One thing at a time Little and often Limits Closed lists Reduce randomness Commitment v. interest
• What one is always aiming for is to make it easier to do the right thing than the wrong one.
• Resistance to doing a task is largely a matter of the reactive brain seeing the task as a threat. The rational brain can tell the reactive brain as much as it likes about how important it is to get the task done. So long as the reactive brain regards the task as a threat, it will keep the brakes firmly on.
• The rational brain has to be subtle here and persuade the reactive brain that there is no threat.
• The easiest way to do this is for you to pretend to yourself that you are not going to do the task. Remember that the reactive brain is not intelligent, and is therefore not capable of fathoming out the strategies of the rational brain.