# How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably - Steph Smith Synced: [[2023_12_03]] 4:46 AM Last Highlighted: [[2023_12_02]]  ## Highlights [[2023_12_02]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgp8qyx6m30cfk15dmnyvfjs) > Interestingly enough, I realized that it was not the sporadic highs that were exceptional, but instead the long hauls; the sequences of events that seemed minimal at each juncture, but compounded into major gains. This led me to think further about what *greatness* truly means. I’ve come to learn that it’s not about overnight successes or flashes of excellence, but periods of repeatable habits. > > ***Perhaps “great’, is just “good”, but repeatable.*** [[The Slow Hunch]] [[2023_12_02]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgp8xrr9ds766njrhw2mxjch) > *Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.”* - James Clear, [Atomic Habits](https://amzn.to/31t6vQZ) [[2023_12_02]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgp90rrjyzgfhtt5qwz8tnd6) > Napolean Hill which says, *“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way”*. [[2023_12_02]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgp95n5xea4ybr0svtwh80zq) >  [[2023_12_02]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgp99r14y1xwbrrjrxqack8g) > That is exactly why a specific search for success can be problematic and instead of looking for unsustainable shortcuts in life, it’s much more effective (and healthy) to aim for continuous habits that bring you success as a byproduct, not as the end goal You have to love the game not the end goal [[2023_12_02]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgp98xmnk9kc985q60yp43yp) > The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.” - [Atomic Habits](https://amzn.to/31t6vQZ), James Clear Added: [[2023_12_03]] [[2023_12_03]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgq563v1mkp4wthqx14k5604) > To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” - Henri Bergson [[2023_12_03]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgq5r4mj4grtjv7s2pw0wqp8) >  [[2023_12_03]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgq5906b1xsnw5ernjsc02v3) > It is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle. We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action” - James Clear, [Atomic Habits](https://amzn.to/31t6vQZ) [[2023_12_03]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgq5a6g5c6xb7vg9261nrk7n) > Building products, writing, and painting are not mental excercises, they are physical ones. > Reading to improve is like watching someone else workout – it does almost nothing for you. > To run better, run. > To paint better, paint. > To write better, write. > To build better, build. [[2023_12_03]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgq5bx55zbgh2bj88emab22m) > In being consistent over time, you **become** the outlier