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> You don’t rise to the level of your talents/motivation/discipline, you fall to the level of your habits.

"The enemy's gate is /down/!" (downward) [1]

That is, orientate yourself such that where you want to go is as easy/automatic as falling.

[1] Ender's Game, and the Ender's Shadow sequence. Though, I wish the catchphrase had used "downward" rather than "down", as the latter is confusingly similar to "has fallen / is breached".

[Edit: s/r'r Shadow/r's Shadow]



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