4 Improvement Pills From the World’s Top Achievers to Fix 93% of Your Daily Habits

If you only follow a few habits, follow the right ones.

By the time you’re a teen, life is an all-you-can-eat buffet.

The next step is observing, tasting what you fancy, and sampling unexplored flavors.

Before the maturity age arises (30–60), human beings experiment with what works. Testing involves communication, relationships, and psychology. Many people find their “perfect thing,” but sometimes, it’s too late.

Others submit to books and listen to podcasts to eliminate the experimental phase. But when nothing’s helping, maybe it’s time to look a little further and dive into the lives of people who made the most out of their time.

It takes decades to become a perfect human being. It’s in your hands to turn the decades into a few years.

Meaning: don’t go with the flow. Instead, copy the patterns of the world’s noteworthy people and eliminate the experimental phase. Explore your fullest potential.

This way, you can do more with your life and get satisfied with the outcome.

If that’s what you want, below are 4 habits of the world’s top achievers that you can copy now:

1. On metamorphosis

Andrew Carnegie was the pioneer of the formidable American steel industry.

In his 80 years lifetime, he funded libraries, established schools, and helped inaugurate thousands of churches.

Andrew Carnegie was friends with Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and Dale Carnegie. Having been in a group like this for so long explains his maturity.

Carnegie was never an industrialist. As a boy, he worked at a cotton factory and eventually on the Pennsylvania railroad in 19 CE.

By 30, Carnegie discovered his interest in iron works, steamers, railroads, etc. Because of Carnegie’s interest, he had a prosperous future for the next 50 years. According to Carnegie:

“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”

How to apply?

Know what works for you. Pull out your interests and hobbies and make them work.

We all have 5–6 interests we can leverage. For writers and readers, here are the top hobbies we can leverage:

• Writing
• Storytelling/Drama
• Proofreading/ beta reader
• Screenwriter
• [insert your own]

Find the one that works for you. Now instead of wasting time trying to test every hobby, select one and put it to experiment.

Select at least 5 hobbies.

Now, use the list to experiment rather than melting into every pursuit you see on the internet. Stay true to your goals. You might be the #1 In your field, and there’s no shame.

Being alone and #1 is the best combination. As Carnegie always believed:

“The first man gets the oyster, and the second man gets the shell.”

2. On reading

Ryan Holiday reads a total of 250 books every year.

Meaning a total of 21 books per month.

Ryan Holiday follows a simple technique to make the most out of his reading habit: reading the classics.

Books such as “When” and “How to win friends and influence people” have a significant portion of philosophy.

If you read less, then read the right ones. Read primary books from Stoic, Buddha’s teaching, and more.

Now, classics can be anything read in your childhood. Reread them because the wisdom in those books is timeless. Some book examples and recommendations by Ryan Holiday are:

• The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects By Giorgio Vasari
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Fragments by Heraclitus

How to apply?

We only read a share of books in our life.

Have you ever thought reading one right book might save you from reading 10? That’s what primary books are for.

To learn all the valuable lessons from the books, Ryan Holiday follows a simple method:

• Refrain: Ryan stops reading books he doesn’t enjoy. Leave a book if it doesn’t interest you by page 70.
• Ask for book recommendations: ask intellectual people about the type of books they read.
• Highlight exciting words and phrases: read thoroughly and learn the suggestions.
• Write on flashcards: maintain flashcards and write essential points on them.
• Write everything: write everything down on paper to help your brain register in an instant.

In other words, following Ryan’s strategy helps to become a world-class reader. It might take a long time to adjust, but it’s worth it.

Check out Ryan’s book recommendations.

3. On business

An average person needs three million years to become as rich as Elon Musk.

• Sounds terrifying.

Though Elon musk is not appreciated for the acts he often pulls, he uses strategies to save time.

Elon Musk generates income from businesses such as Twitter, SpaceX, PayPal, and Tesla. Though all of his companies have employees, and it’s his job to set them out, he has an acceptable plan.

Elon Musk believes in quality rather than quantity.

According to him, if a person has nothing to contribute, they should leave the meeting. Only a handful of intelligent people are good enough to get the discussion going — the rest are liabilities.

Elon likes to pay the smartest 10x more than allowing duffer people to cluster the meeting.

How to apply?

• You might work in an office where a meeting frightens you.
• Or you might have a startup for which a meeting is necessary.

In short, the meeting is like a garland necklace that refuses to leave your neck. The cherry on top happens when the meeting is boring and wastes your time.

We don’t have similar days, which means on the meeting day, you can feel low.

Many people face problems like unavailability and shortage of focus. To combat that, follow a no-frills principle: leave the meeting if you can’t concentrate.

I know this doesn’t sound nice. If you give your brain an ultimatum, you’ll get focused, plan a day ahead, and have much to say in the meeting.

Give yourself an option: am I ready or not?

4. On leadership

Dan Pena is a Mexican-American businessman known for his career as a financial analyst at Wall Street.

Pena invested his time and fortune in oil, which made him a trillion-dollar man.

Apart from his revenue, Dan Pena is primarily famous for sharing his secrets, wisdom, and knowledge in the form of books, videos, and podcasts.

His age at 77 also justifies his maturity sayings and lessons.

Dan Pena, also known as the castle man, said one thing that disturbs me a lot:

“The leader is in you. If I had taught you leadership skills, you would be ready to become one. It’s taught”

All those who say politicians, businessmen, and leaders are a gene pool thing are wrong. Using the gene pool as a gap only kicks you out of the game.

The people we discussed above are people who created their life from scratch. Meaning everything you want to become is possible. You need to know how.

How to apply?

Dan Pena believes in one sole principle:

“Tell them who your friends are, and I’ll tell you about your future.”

Dan believes our friend circle and connections generate a percentage of our personality. Spending time with someone becomes a part of who we are.

• If you want to become a leader, hang out with 3 leaders, and you’ll become the 4th one.
• Hang out with 3 business people, and you’ll become 4th one.
• Hang out with 3 car owners, and you’ll become 4th one.

You become who you spend time with. Make sure you know where you’re putting your effort.

Life is too short to stick with people who control your growth.

Final thoughts:

Take action — a key ingredient to every success story.

You might know what works but don’t know how well it works unless you take action.

Use the strategies above and improve your life by 93%.

The rest 7% is already in you. Unleash that and combine 93% to become the perfect human being the world has ever seen.

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