The-Slight-Edge
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Faces of the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong> 133<br />
are what create habits. He must be quick to break those<br />
habits that can break him—and hasten to adopt those<br />
practices that will become the habits that can help him<br />
achieve the success he desires.<br />
— J. Paul Getty<br />
It’s interesting to note where your habits really come from. <strong>The</strong>y arise out<br />
of your actions, true—but where do your actions come from? Remember this?<br />
your<br />
PHILOSOPHY<br />
creates<br />
your ATTITuDE<br />
your ACTIONS<br />
your RESuLTS<br />
creates<br />
your<br />
LIFE<br />
Your habits come from your daily activities compounded over time. And<br />
your activities are the result of the choices you make in the moment. Your choices<br />
come from your habits of thought, which are the product of your thinking, which<br />
comes from the view you have of the world and your place in it—your philosophy.<br />
Which is why the key to your success, to mastering the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong> through the<br />
long-term effect of your everyday habits of thought and action, is your philosophy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> point of this book is to give you a structure for designing your success.<br />
Once you are aware of and understand how to use the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong> to work for<br />
you, you can go about succeeding on purpose. Your intuitive sense of the <strong>Slight</strong><br />
<strong>Edge</strong> becomes your automatic pilot. It guides you, keeps you on track and helps<br />
you measure your progress. It weighs and measures your every habit, discarding<br />
those that don’t serve you and designing new ones that do.<br />
<strong>The</strong> key is making those right choices.<br />
Each choice you make is like a length of steel wire. By itself, it’s not that big<br />
a deal, but when braided together, when compounded with all the other choices<br />
you make, these lengths of wire form a thick cable of awesome strength and power.<br />
Nothing is stronger than habit.<br />
—Ovid<br />
Have you ever seen the huge steel cables that hold up suspension bridges like<br />
the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco or the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New<br />
York? <strong>The</strong>y’re flexible, yet they’re so thick and strong you get the sense that no<br />
earthly force could break them. <strong>The</strong> cables made up of your right choices are just
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