Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

The Problem With Winners and Losers

20 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Nick Hutchison argues winners and losers often want the same things, but winners have better systems. At Book Thinkers, repeated failure stopped only after building foundational systems, not after changing goals. James Clear's Atomic Habits offers practical ways to build them.

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Problem number 1, winners and losers have the same goals. Over the last couple of years at Book Thinkers, we've always had big goals, but the difference between the years where we've failed and the years where we've been successful is our systems. We had no foundation, yet we were shooting for the moon, and as a result, we completely failed every single year that we did that. But once we put systems in place and built a solid foundation for the business, and then we had the bigger goals, we started to achieve them. And so if you find yourself in a place where you're consistently failing to hit your goals, it's not about your goals, it's about your systems. And books like Atomic Habits will help reinforce that and help you put it into action.