You cannot accomplish anything without growth. You are born as a baby with absolutely nothing. If you did not grow you would be crawling around on the floor your entire life, being unable to understand or be understood.

From the book [[predictably-irrational]], there is an idea of emotional reasoning, where you make decisions because of your emotions. The problem is that your emotions are quite mallebale, so they are not good for making decisions. For example, I don't feel like working out as a reason to not work out. You can accept this fate, or change your emotions so you do want to workout. If you want to do something, but your emotions are stopping you, then instead of focusing on achieving the thing, focus on changing your emotions.

Do not be a passive observer of your life, waiting for things to happen to you. Instead, be engaged, take ownership of your life.

My environment has a huge impact on behavior. Imagine if a gun was put onto your head for you to achieve your most important goal. The probability of you achieving it is astronomically higher, even though nothing about your capabilities changed.

This is for several reasons, for one, if I know its good for me to do it, then I should do it, feat should not be a deciding factor. But also, if I am afraid of doing it, then that means it is something uncommon. I am not an average person, so I need to do uncommon or unaverage things. Moreso, if I am afraid, then I should do it because it will help build courage.

I learn how to learn, I learn how to plan, I learn time management

Intentionality as I define it is acting in ways aligned with your goals. It is the opposite of acting based on short term feelings, pleasures, or randomly.

In general, it is not possible for you to exactly who you are or why you do what you do. this is revealed by the [[split-brain-experiment]] where the brain makes up reasons for why it made specific decisions. Therefore, when giving reasons why you did something, always to open for future re-evaluation as to why you did it and acknowledge you do not, and cannot entirely know. This is also related to priming in psychology when you are primed to be more likely to make a decision, such as [[how-your-unconscious-mind-rules-your-behaviour:-leonard-mlodinow-at-tedxreset-2013]]

Always go a layer deeper in your understanding than others