Key Points of Chapter 2 If you learn to understand and apply the Slight Edge, your life will become filled with hundreds of thousands of small, seemingly insignificant actions—all of them easy to do, none of them mysterious, complex or difficult. These are the actions that will create your success. That’s what successful people do: simple things that are easy to do. Here’s the problem: every action that is easy to do, is also easy not to do. If you don’t do them, you won’t suffer, or fail or blow it—today. But that simple error in judgment, compounded over time will ruin your chances for success.

What the Slight Edge philosophy is meant to do is give you a philosophy that will become a filter for every decision you make. It will give you a way to apply great information in your life in a way that will produce lasting results. It is the missing ingredient to making change happen!"If you like more hard core motivation it's got that too. "You want a miracle, be the miracle", "Greatness is always in the moment of the decision".

For the person who's actually motivated by cheerleaders yelling "Go you, you can do it!" then this book might actually be for you. For everyone else, skip it. She explains that the more success you have, the more success you will have, and that there is a price to pay for that: responsibility. Olsen also takes us through 5 key areas of our lives, including health, personal development, relationships, finances, and life in general. For each of these areas, list down the following:The slight edge is one of these books whose core message can be summarized in two sentences, but that needlessly feels the need to drag on and on, without ever giving tangible advice to the reader. Chapter 10 Invest in Yourself...................................................................................139 Chapter 11 Turning Your Dreams into Reality........................................................157 Chapter 12 Living the Slight Edge..........................................................................169 Chapter 13 Where to Go from Here......................................................................185 Afterword: The Slight Edge Next Generation by Amber Olson...................................189 A Special Invitation..........................................................................................................199 Life-Transforming Resources...........................................................................................201 About the Author..............................................................................................................203 In the book, Olsen outlines several powerful ideas to help us embark on the road to mastery. Here’s an overview (do get more details from our full summary): No success is immediate. Nor is any failure instantaneous. They are both products of the Slight Edge. The truth of quantum leaps is that they are not larger than life: they're submicroscopic. The actual term "quantum leap" comes from particle physics, where it does not refer to a huge, epic jump. It refers to the fact that energy, after a period of time. epic jump. It refers to the fact that energy, after a period off time. will suddenly appear at another level, without our having been able to observe how it got there. It is an exact description of how the water hyacinth moves from day twenty-nine to day thirty. An exact description of how the frog's certain death by drowning was suddenly transformed into salvation by butter."

When you want something you don’t have yet (losing weight, making more money) you have two solutions. Maybe it’s no wonder why he kept on talking about himself ad nauseam (until the moment he invited the whole family, but no spoilers!!). Then you should come up with a step-by-step plan to make them work. Your plan won’t work how you think it will, and it’s ok, as long as you reach your goals. A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turn into positive results, which turn into a positive lifestyle. A negative philosophy turns into a negative attitude, which turns into negative actions, which turn into negative results, which turn into a negative lifestyle. Continuous Learning. How to develop yourself continuously as a key element of the Slight Edge philosophy.

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Everything you need to do to transform your life is easy to do. Easy to become health, fit, vibrant, financially independent. A simple positive action repeated over time. A simple error in judgement repeated over time. So easy to do. So easy not to do. Answer: up or down…. The idea is simple: consistently doing small, seemingly insignificant habits will lead to huge, positive outcomes / conversely, not doing them get lead to huge, negative outcomes. The Secret Ingredient However, there is a secret ingredient. There is a secret that, once you know it, will cause you to find those answers, apply them, live them, and achieve those results you want. The secret ingredient is your philosophy. The secret is to change the way you think. Once you do, then you will take the steps you need to take, to lead you to the how-to’s you need. If you don’t change your thinking, no amount of how-to’s will offer a real solution. It’s not the “hows,” it’s how you do the “hows.” This isn’t about self-hypnosis, or about conjuring up the impossible through sheer positive thinking, or any other kind of hocus-pocus. And I’m not talking about some complex, elaborate or heady system of ideas. And—although I’ll completely understand if you find the last part of this sentence truly difficult to believe—what I’m talking about is not difficult to do. It simply means changing your thinking. Your philosophy. The reason diets and other how-to’s don’t work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don’t work for most people. It isn’t

Since reading this book, I have developed my own personal success philosophy, and it works. Granted, I haven't seen the monetary riches from applying the principles yet, but, as the book teaches, patience and application of the concepts will develop a foundation for success. In fact, by applying the principles, I have already noticed a change in my thinking from one of worry and negativity to one of hope and faith. Consequently, there is no doubt in my mind that the goals that I have for myself and my family will become a reality because of The Slight Edge philosophy that I have developed.Success Is Not a Race, It’s a Journey opportunity For many years I wanted to be my own boss, and when the a few years after nately, Unfortu s. busines first presented itself I started my alizing demor pretty a was It ing. everyth lost I and failed s the busines experience and one that I liked to deny responsibility for. Shortly my eyes afterwards I was given a audio copy of The Slight Edge and overnight, failed had s busines my like d seeme it h were opened. Althoug from the further when I really thought about it nothing could have been , and reverse in Edge Slight the g truth. For a long time I had been applyin ating. devast is out, found I as that, of the cumulative effect Edge I’m happy to say that since then I have been applying Slight (no principles in the correct manner, and although it has taken awhile in a forward moving now are things one said it would be easy, did they?) first my and family, lovely a wife, ul beautif a have I n. very positive directio d planne 12 of children’s book is being published this month, with a series bright, ely extrem looks family over the next two years. The future for our consistent and I know from the bottom of my heart that this is down to Edge. Slight the of tion applica ™ —Mark Hibbitts, Author of Alfie Potts the Schoolboy Entrepreneur Two Life Paths.........................................................................................95 Apply the Slight Edge Principles and Stir! I have used the principles of the Slight Edge to improve my physical fitness, starting with one push-up and one sit-up a day, adding another each day and building to over 100 per day. I have used it to help pay off debt, build my savings and investments, and improve my relationships with my children. The Slight Edge Philosophy Your philosophy is your view of life, something beyond feelings and attitudes. Your philosophy drives your attitudes and feelings, which drive your actions. By and large, people are looking in the wrong places. They are looking for a breakthrough, looking for that amazing “quantum leap”—the philosophy of the