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the optimal living daily part just network where we re to you from pillar blogs and today and I will oppose from James Clear, a super popular product? Vivian habits, blogger, whose content is awesome, so let's get right to his post and start optimizing. Your life. What, ten is overvalued. Environment, often matters more by James, clear of James, clear dot, com. It can be tempting to blame failure on a lack of willpower or a scarcity of talent into a tribute success too hard work, Raffer incorrect to be sure those things matter was interesting. However, if you examine how human behaviour has been shaped over time, you discover that motivation and even talent is often overvalued. In many cases, the environment matters more Let me share example to surprise me when I first learned of it. The shape of human behaviour is a warning.

Book, guns, germs and steal. Scientist chair, dime, the points I an obvious fact, different continents have different shapes Glances seems rather unimportant, but it turns out to have a profound impact on human behaviour, for example, to Jerry shape of the Americas is North south that the land mass of North and South America tends to be tall and thin and shape. Rather, why, in fact the same is true for Africa Debate, Mary axes runs from north to south meal. The land masses of Europe, Asia and the Middle EAST is opposite. This masses, of Land, has to be more EAST west in shape and lay the shape of each region has played a significant role in driving human behavior. Throughout the centuries the Roma but will power of environment when agriculture, Vienna spread around the globe. Farmers had a much your time. Expanding along EAST West routes, that alone nor southwards disappears.

Pages along. The same latitude generally share some our climate amounts of sunlight rainfall com changes in seasons. This farmers in Europe and Asia to domesticate a few crops and easily grow them along the entire shred of land from France to China. Meanwhile, the making very wildly when you travel from north to south, just imagine how different. The weather is in Florida, converter, Canada, many crops. Farewell well and warm other tuna. Grow well in cold weather, in order to spread crops north and south farmers will need to find an domesticate new plans whenever the climate change as a result these environmental differences, agriculture spread to tie up to three times faster across Asia, Europe, as it did up and down the Americas over. Of centuries has had a very big impact. The increase food production, in Europe and Asia- allowed for more rapid, population growth in those areas with more people to cultures in Europe and Asia were able to build stronger armies and develop new too

allergies and innovations, the changes There are small, a crop that spreads slightly easier population. I grew slightly faster, become How did it a substantial differences over time, while there were other factors. It is not a stretch to say this: people the continent's was an important reason why Europeans rose to power and conquer the native tribes of North and South America, and not The other way around visible hand invite comment, is the invisible hand that shapes human behaviour? We tend to believe our habits are a product of our more nation, talent and effort. Certainly these always matter, but the surprising thing is so she, over a long time period. Your personal characteristics tend to get overpowered by your environment Imagine trying to grow tomatoes and a canadian winter you can be the most, farmer in the world, but it will make a difference. Snow is a very poor substitute for soil

There is no evidence that the farmers of Europe and Asia were more talented or more motivated and farmers in the rest of the world. Yet they were able to spread our culture two times to three faster than their peers. If you want to make some eyes. Your odds of success, then you need to operate. An environment that accelerates your results rather than hinder them. How to design a better environment There are many ways to design environments that promote success. Here are three, prodigies. First automate good decisions, whenever possible, design environment makes good decisions for you, for example, by smaller place, can help you lose weight. Deciding portion size for you, from brainwaves. Think Cornell University found that people you twenty two percent, less food by switching from twelve instead replace plates ten inch place. Similarly using soft block social media sites can help overcome procrastinate

and by putting your willpower on autopilot second get in the flow. A few years ago, Petsmart change or check out process, you're swiping their credit card customers are shown a screen that asked if they wanted to donate, to help save homeless animals through this Single strategy Petsmart share. He's raised forty million dollars in a year. You can apply similar strategy by designing an environment where good habits cat in the flow of normal behaviors, for example. If you want to practise a musical instrument, you could place it in the middle of the living room similar. You are more likely to go to the gym if it is literally on the way home from work than if the Jim is only fair. Minutes away, but in the opposite direction of your commute. Whenever possible, design your habits are they fit in the flow of recurrent patterns? Third subtracting negative influences angel farmers and of the opportunity to remove the barriers that held them back, but you do, for example, Japanese, TEL Aviv.

Manufacturers, rearrange or workspaces to save time by eliminating unnecessary turning bending and swiftly. You can also is a native influences in your environment, for example. You can make it easier to avoid on whose, by storing them in less visible places, foods Replace at high level tend to be purchased and eaten more frequently the lock of the environment. We are quick to blame our environment. When things go poorly, if you lose job, it's because the economy sucks If you lose, a game is because the officiating was bad. If you're late to work is because traffic was insane When we win, however, we ignore the environment completely. If you landed job, That's because you were talented and likeable if you wanna game is because you played better. If you for a meeting is because you are organised and prompt. Is I don't remember that the environment rise? I could behaviors as well as our bad ones. People who seem to stick to it. As with ease, are often benefiting.

Environments that makes those barriers easier. Meanwhile, people's struggle to succeed could be putting an uphill battle against our environment were often looks like a lack of willpower is actually the result of a poor environment. Life is a game We want to guarantee better results over sustained period of time. The best approach is to play the game in an environment that favours you, winners, often when, because their environment makes winning easier. You just listen post. Titled motivation is overvalued. Environment, often matters more by James, clear of James cleared our com and what I love about his poses that I always feel like there's something that I'll always remember from it or is that will somehow stick in my mind like the contents example, I thought that was really unique. Anyway. We can really close to another book give away. I give away, ran a book to someone Alma mailing list on the first of every month at a minute you see. There are other book giveaways throughout the month, but definitely on the first of the month, so be

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