In the past, we humans have learned to control the world outside us, but we had very little control over the world inside us.   - Yuval Noah Harari, (Location 222)

1. [Cognitive] Use reason for its highest purpose: to evaluate and judge the best possible course of action, as free as possible from passion and bias. 2. [Behavioral] Have an unwavering will for executing whichever actions were judged to be the best. 3. [Emotional] Understand that beyond clear reasoning and a resolved will, everything is outside of one’s power, and should be no cause for stress or regret. - Rene Descartes, Letter to Princess Elisabeth (Location 435)

Our goal is not freedom from the algorithms that make up our minds, but the autonomy to transform the algorithms which don't serve us into algorithms which do. In order to make these transformations, we must learn to think about our psychological problems algorithmically. We can’t be vague about our issues. (Location 456)

Our bad habits and harmful behaviors are effectively if-then programs triggered by real-world inputs that result in undesirable outputs.23 Our cognitive biases and fallacies are reflexive inferences which flow systematically from preprogrammed rules below our ordinary level of awareness. (Location 460)

It is not hard to imagine that if Aristotle had possessed our software framework, he would have found it even more useful than his habit model. What are habits, after all, if not a collection of if-then statements determining one’s behavior? The sum of these habits, what Aristotle called character, we call software. (Location 494)

The way your mind is structured will determine the person you become, the life you live, and the fulfillment you realize. When you modify your mind, you edit the operating system at your core and change your personal trajectory. (Location 496)

Your great satisfaction should be the feeling of making one tiny optimization, inching one step closer to your ideal. This perspective is not unlike the best dieting advice available. Trying to constantly muster willpower to bring about a result can’t compare to gradual and habitual optimization. (Location 501)

Psychitecture’s aim is to reform biologically ingrained habits and tendencies of all forms. It’s goal is to rewire the mental biases, distortions, and assumptions that cause us to make mistakes, the unnecessary suffering we fall victim to on a regular basis, the mentalities that hold us back in life, and the impulses that lead us away from our ideals. (Location 514)

the thoughts your brain outputs are generated automatically in response to real-world events, generally without your consent. The chains these thoughts form are stories which often embody both the emotional dramatization and banality of a soap opera. The default mind accepts these repetitive tropes as legitimate, and often even identifies with them. (Location 592)

Psychitecture is self-directed psychological evolution. The act of deliberately reprogramming your psychological operating system. (Location 662)