Life rewards courage. The person who is brave enough to bet on something or someone—as long as they avoid irreversible mistakes like running out of … - James Clear

Here’s the powerful part: there are many different ways to address the same underlying motive. One person might learn to reduce stress by smoking a cigarette. Another person learns to ease their anxiety by going for a run. Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use. Once you associate a solution with the problem you need to solve, you keep coming back to it.

Qualities that lead to increasing intelligence:

1. The curiosity to experiment and explore.<br/>2. The honesty to observe the world as it is, not as you wish it to be.<br/>3. The humility to kill your favorite ideas when you learn something new.<br/>4. The consistency to repeat this cycle for life.

The trajectory of your life bends in the direction of your habits.