The sixth essential mental skill is “good habits.”
Habits are actions that can be performed automatically without relying on willpower. Good habits serve as a fast track to success.
Those who truly live by learning, such as many outstanding master's and doctoral students, as well as professors, do not rely on willpower to study. They study day and night because they find joy in learning itself, and over time, it becomes a habit. A person's habits determine their daily actions, and daily actions shape their lifetime achievements.
In summary, parents' role is to implant these mental skills into their children's minds. Parents are like program input operators, and children are like newly manufactured computers whose hard drives have not yet been formatted. Programs need to be input step by step before they can operate independently. Only when children become independent individuals can they function successfully in society.