# Master the Day

## Metadata
- Author: [[Alexander Heyne]]
- Full Title: Master the Day
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Here’s what that key was - it was a combination of understanding the person’s inner psychology (what I call “The Narrative” with a capital “T”), and their understanding of tiny habits. From now on, when I refer to The Key, you’ll know that it means The Inner Narrative (Your Psychology) + Tiny Daily Habits. ([Location 133](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B011HNR91Q&location=133))
- Several years ago, a Yale professor was chartered to analyze many of the major diet trends and see which one was most effective. What he and his team found was that it didn’t matter if the person went low fat, low carb, or low something else. What mattered was that they were carb and fat selective – meaning, they just chose the right healthy ones, rather than removing them.1 ([Location 137](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B011HNR91Q&location=137))
- Another study tried to figure out something similar: which diet is most actually most effective at weight loss long term? The study done in the Journal of the American Medical Association found the following after comparing a few popular diets: the major thing predicting your levels of health and weight loss is your ability to adhere to whatever plan you have set forth – more than the diet itself.2 ([Location 142](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B011HNR91Q&location=142))
- 1. An understanding of The Narrative – that story we keep telling ourselves – and how it causes us to make the same mistakes over and over, or how it discourages us constantly. There was a big emphasis on paying attention to the narrative, and re-writing it. ([Location 150](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B011HNR91Q&location=150))
- 2. An emphasis on changing behavior, and habits, not weight loss tips, tricks, diets or fads. The case studies I interviewed emphasized going back to the true origin: our behavior, rather than the diet. If something didn’t work, what habits or behaviors led us down that road? ([Location 153](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B011HNR91Q&location=153))