Why is it that some people seem to make dream
after dream come true, while others spend
their lives building someone else’s dream?
Why are some people successful, and some people
failures?
What’s the difference—really?
We all know there IS a difference, because
we can SEE that some people make it and some don't.
And the difference It is not heredity, education,
looks, talent or inheritance.
It is not “preparedness meeting opportunity,”
and it’s not chance, either.
That thing is called the Slight Edge.
The Slight Edge Philosophy is a powerful tool,
it can work for OR against you, and the successful
people understand this and use it to their
advantage.
The Slight Edge is not something that will
make you successful quick, a magic bullet,
a quantum leap but rather a Philosophy.
It shows us that Success is not a big thing
that happens to the chosen ones, but it's
made of small things easy to do.
Have you ever had a choice between browsing
Facebook or learning something new for 15
minutes?
Which one would you choose?
It doesn't really matter right, whichever
one you choose it won't make any difference.
It's not that after spending 15 minutes learning
something new you're gonna be master at that
skill tomorrow or that spending 15 minutes
on Facebook is going to ruin your life.
So we have this Paradox now, because, on one
hand you are right, this small decision won't
make any difference in your life it won't
affect you at all, but on the other hand this
little decision is ALL that matters.
What if you extrapolate those 15 minutes over
the next year, what about now?
Would it matter?
What about the next 3 years?
What if instead of sleeping in for 30 minutes
you did 30 push ups every morning?
What do you think would happen?
Imagine reading 10 pages of a book before
going to bed.
It’s easy to read 10 pages before bed, and
everyone can do it.
But because it is very easy to do, it's also
very easy not to do and ignore it.
It's not like you're gonna wake up tomorrow
and suddenly feel extremely smart, but what
if you did that for the whole year?
That’s about 10 to 15 books.
15 Good books can transform the way you think
and see the world.
Those 10 minutes before bed can give you more
real life knowledge than spending 4 years
in college.
That’s what successful people do: simple
things that are easy to do.
So If these thing are so easy and anyone could
do, how come no one does them?”
You know why?
Because they’re all also easy not to do—and
while anyone could do them, most won’t.
Fundamentally, we all take pretty much the
same actions every day.
We eat, sleep, think, feel, talk and listen.
We have relationships and friendships.
We each have twenty-four hours a day, around 88 
hundred hours a year, and we each fill these hours
one way or the other with a sequence of little
tasks and actions, any one of which is seemingly
insignificant.
Gold medal marathon runners eat and sleep.
So do people who are thirty pounds overweight.
Successful entrepreneurs think and feel and
have relationships with other people.
So do those who are unemployed or even living
on the streets.
People who make lots of money read books.
People who are broke read books, too.
The successful and unsuccessful both do the
same
basic things in their lives, day in and day
out.
Yet the things successful people do take them
to the top, while the things unsuccessful
people do take them down and out.
The takeaway from the book is that little
things, when compounded, matter and that you
should take full responsibility for where
you are in your life, because THAT's the result
of each and every decision you've made so
far.
So stop blaming other people, talent, inheritance
or even luck.
The difference between being that successful
person or continue being average, lies one
hundred percent in which of those little,
“insignificant” actions you choose to do.
