For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.