Jay Shetty

The environment is that powerful.

Here's the immediate application.

You don't have to quit on all your friends.

Three questions to ask about your current environment.

First, does your physical space make your most important behaviors easier or harder?

If you want to meditate, is there a clear, quiet space that invites it?

If you want to create, is your workspace organized around creation or is everything arranged around distraction?

Second, does your social environment, the five people you spend the most time with, make you more or less likely to become who you're trying to be?

Not whether you love them, whether their orbit is pulling you forward or holding you in place.

Third, what is the single easiest change you could make to your environment today, right now, that would make your most important goal more likely?

Not a dramatic thing, the smallest possible environmental adjustment that removes friction between you and who you're trying to become.

You don't rise to your goals.

As James Clear says, you fall to your environment.

So build an environment worth falling to.

Mindset six, the most dangerous story you tell is the one about yourself.

Every person walking the planet is a narrator of their own life.

And like all narrators, we're unreliable.

We edit, we emphasize certain chapters and minimize others.

We assign causation where there's only correlation.

We cast ourselves in roles, sometimes the hero, sometimes the victim, always the protagonist, and we mistake those roles for truth.