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Improvement requires a delicate balance. You need to regularly search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to make enough progress to stay motivated. Behaviors need to remain novel in order for them to stay attractive and satisfying. Without variety, we get bored. And boredom is perhaps the greatest villain on the quest for self-improvement.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Controlling for education and hours worked, women’s average annual earnings decrease by 20 percent if they are out of the workforce for just one year.16 Average annual earnings decline by 30 percent after two to three years,17 which is the average amount of time that professional women off-ramp from the workforce.
■ The culture we live in determines which behaviors are attractive to us.
■ We tend to adopt habits that are praised and approved of by our culture because we have a strong desire to fit in and belong to the tribe.
■ We tend to imitate the habits of three social groups: the close (family and friends), the many (the tribe), and the powerful (those with status and prestige).
■ One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where (1) your desired behavior is the normal behavior and (2) you already have something in common with the group.
■ The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual. Most days, we’d rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves.
■ If a behavior can get us approval, respect, and praise, we find it attractive.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
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