If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful. - Josh Kaufman

The best way to invest willpower in support of skill acquisition is to use it to remove these soft barriers to practice. By rearranging your environment to make it as easy as possible to start practicing, you’ll acquire the skill in far less time.

Think of these principles as ways to identify a skill worthy of temporary obsession, focus on it, and remove distractions or barriers that distract you from effective practice.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.