Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change. This pattern sho… - James Clear

Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks.

Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up to potential required to unleash a major change.

Don't ruminate, activate.

I find it is difficult to think my way into a better mood. When I sit and stew, the problem usually grows larger in my mind.

But if I activate — even if it's unrelated to the problem at hand — my mood tends to improve. Action breaks the spell. Move your body, go outside, play an instrument, work in a different room, do something.

Movement changes your state. And when your state changes, your perspective changes. New solutions appear. You notice options that were invisible when your mind was stuck running the same loop.

To simplify before you understand the details is ignorance.

To simplify after you understand the details is genius.

If you never question things, your life ends up being limited by other people's imaginations.

Take the time to think and dream, to question and reconsider. It is better to be limited by what you can dream for yourself than by where you fit in someone else's dream.