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Basic Notes of The Slight Edge

This document summarizes the key points from chapters of a book called "The Slight Edge". It discusses how small, consistent actions over long periods of time can lead to massive success. While these actions are easy to do, most people fail to do them consistently. Having the right philosophy and understanding how time works for or against you is important. Showing up each day with discipline and integrity, even when not motivated, allows positive habits to compound over time moving one higher on the success curve. Setting goals, having plans, and finding simple daily disciplines are also discussed as important principles for achieving one's dreams.

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Basic Notes of The Slight Edge

This document summarizes the key points from chapters of a book called "The Slight Edge". It discusses how small, consistent actions over long periods of time can lead to massive success. While these actions are easy to do, most people fail to do them consistently. Having the right philosophy and understanding how time works for or against you is important. Showing up each day with discipline and integrity, even when not motivated, allows positive habits to compound over time moving one higher on the success curve. Setting goals, having plans, and finding simple daily disciplines are also discussed as important principles for achieving one's dreams.

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The Slight Edge

Key points of Chapter 1


The secret ingredient of success is your philosophy: what you know, how you hold it and
how it affects what you do.
Key points of Chapter 2
Seemingly small insignificant actions done everyday eventually compound and eual
massive success. These actions are easy to do !ut also easy not to do, which is why
most people fail. Those simple errors in "udgement compounded over time will ruin your
chances for success.
Key points of Chapter #
The most powerful force for change is time. $osition your daily actions so time is
working for instead of against you. %ecause time will either promote you or e&pose you.
'hat keeps you on the path is your slight edge philosophy which includes your
understanding of the secret of time. Knowing that if ( stay on this path long enough ( will
get the results ( want. (n today)s world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to
harvest. The step we keep overlooking is the step of cultivating. *nd that, unlike planting
and harvesting, takes place only through the patient dimension of time. The right
choices you make today, compounded over time, will take you higher up the success
curve.
Key points of chapter +
To accomplish anything worth accomplishing you don)t have to do the impossi!le or the
e&traordinary. %ut you have to do something. ,ou have to start with a penny. -o you
think you could improve any area of your life "ust one percent. ,ou can.
Key points of chapter /
'e always look for a cure or magic !ullet for all of our solutions. %ut the solution
already e&ists. (t always did. (s it magic. ,es0the same magic that caused the pro!lem:
the power of daily actions, compounded over time. The magic of the slight edge.
The 1 Slight 2dge $rinciples
1. Show up
2. %e consistent
#. 3ave a good attitude
+. %e committed for a long period of time.
/. 3ave faith and a !urning desire.
4. %e willing to pay the price.
1. $ractice slight edge integrity. That is you do the thing you said you were going to do
long after the urge to do it has left.
Key points of chapter 4
Show up consistently with a good attitude over a long period of time. 3ave faith and a
!urning desire, !e willing to pay the price and have slight edge integrity and discipline to
do those things even when no one is looking.
Key points of chapter 1
The truth is, everything is curved. There is no strait line !ecause everything is always
changing. ,our life is on a curve. ,ou are either curving upward or downward.
5egardless understanding the slight edge will allow you to start fresh and put yourself
firmly on the upper curve.
Key points of chapter 6
The pursuit of any goal is a slight edge "ourney of continuous improvement. 7astery is a
state of mind that e&ists at the !eginning of the path. 8ltimately mastery e&ists in the act
of putting your foot on the path.
Key points of chapter 9
:ive slight edge faces
7omentum0;nce you)re in motion it is hard to stop.
Completion02ach incomplete thing in your life drains you of energy. So plug up those
leaks !y completing as many activities as you can.
3a!it0,our ha!its are what propel you up the success curve or down the failure curve.
5eflection0Check to see if your actions are productive or not.
Cele!ration0Keep all your slight edge successes right out in the open so you can
cele!rate them. *cknowledge those steps no matter how small.
Key points of chapter 1<
The most important gift you can give yourself is your personal development and
!etterment.
Key points of chapter 11
:or a goal to come true:
,ou must write it down, make it specific, and give it a deadline.
,ou must have a plan to start with.
,ou must understand and pay the price.
,ou must look at it every single day.
Key points of chapter 12
'hat one simple activity can you do every day that will have the greatest impact on
your health, personal development, relationships, finances, and life itself.
2&amine what these things mean to you and where your dreams lie in each= and then
lay out for yourself as goals >specific, vivid, and with a timeline?= the price you are willing
to pay= a plan to start= and one simple daily discipline that you will commit to doing each
and every day from now on.

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