Summary of Sean D. Young's Stick with It

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#1 The path of life was actually quite predictable for Nik Wallenda. He had intuitively done everything right to succeed with a plan of action. He was born into a family of circus performers, and had been trained to do something that could kill him at any moment.

#2 The seven forces that support the ability to stick with plans are: change your personality, become like those people with extraordinary willpower, develop your presence, or fire yourself up to want something so passionately that you will overcome all difficulties in your path.

#3 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) didn’t help Josh’s inability to follow through with things. He was easily distracted, and even small tasks like sending an email took more than an hour.

#4 Josh started a project called 365 Spoons, where he crafted a different wooden spoon every day and shared it online with his followers. He not only completed his goal of creating a new spoon every day for the year, but also accumulated an active Instagram following.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822510227

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#1

The path of life was actually quite predictable for Nik Wallenda. He had intuitively done everything right to succeed with a plan of action. He was born into a family of circus performers, and had been trained to do something that could kill him at any moment.

#2

The seven forces that support the ability to stick with plans are: change your personality, become like those people with extraordinary willpower, develop your presence, or fire yourself up to want something so passionately that you will overcome all difficulties in your path.

#3

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) didn’t help Josh’s inability to follow through with things. He was easily distracted, and even small tasks like sending an email took more than an hour.

#4

Josh started a project called 365 Spoons, where he crafted a different wooden spoon every day and shared it online with his followers. He not only completed his goal of creating a new spoon every day for the year, but also accumulated an active Instagram following.

#5

I was able to use the same principles to impact the behavior of others. I created a new approach to delivering financial education online, and today it has nearly twenty thousand viewers.

#6

I wanted to make new friends at Stanford, but also to maintain strong relationships with my old friends from Southern California. I was finding it difficult to juggle both of these things.

#7

The Science of Change is a book that brings together classic and cutting-edge research to demonstrate how change occurs in all human behavior. It provides a simple two-step model for creating lasting change: first, identify whether the behavior you’re trying to change is an A, B, or C behavior. Second, use the