Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they’re willing to pay, in a w… - Josh Kaufman

In the long run — and often in the short-run — your willpower will never beat your environment. — JAMES CLEAR, AUTHOR OF ATOMIC HABITS Let’s say you decide to remove refined sugar from your diet. There’s overwhelming evidence that it’s not good for your health, and you’re convinced your quality of life would improve if you can kick the habit. There’s just one problem: sugar tastes good, and you experience cravings that are difficult to resist. How can you make it easier to change your eating habits? One of the most effective strategies is simple: don’t purchase products with refined sugar at the grocery store, get rid of any food with added sugar in your house, and purchase a few healthy snacks that meet your new criteria. If sugar isn’t available when and where you experience hunger, and if there are easy alternatives to your typical choices, there’s no need to resist temptation: the structure of your immediate Environment makes your new behavior automatic. A few minutes of willpower applied to altering the world around you can make it much easier to act in the ways you’ve decided to act.

I think it’s undeniably true that the human brain works in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person’s brain because it understands the most fundamental models — the ones that do the most work. — CHARLES T. MUNGER,

1. Watch — What’s happening? What’s working and what’s not? 2. Ideate — What could you improve? What are your options? 3. Guess — Based on what you’ve learned so far, which of your ideas do you think will make the biggest impact? 4. Which? — Decide which change to make. 5. Act — Actually make the change. 6. Measure — What happened? Was the change positive or negative? Should you keep the change, or go back to how things were before this iteration? Iteration is a cycle —