🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

1. An atomic habit is a regular practice or routine that is not only small and easy to do but is also the source of incredible power, a component of the system of compound growth.
2. Bad habits repeat themselves not because we want them to, but because we haven’t set up the systems needed to break them.
3. Small positive changes and habits may seem unimportant to you as of starting them but will compound to yield great results if you are willing to stick with them for years.

🎨 Impressions

I picked up this book expecting to read another memoir of motivational quotes and cute phrases, but James Clear subverted my expectations by giving solid advice you can apply to your life as soon as you put down his book.

It boggled me just how simple his methods were, and how effective they were, too. The human mind is very easy to fool and keep entertained. That’s how most of these social media companies keep kids glued to their screens. But Clear lets us into the inner workings of the mind and reverse engineers that concept for us to use it to our advantage.

You may think you can’t make working out or reading a new book as addictive as watching a Netflix series, but Clear shows you how and why it can work.

The book will teach you the difference between systems and goals, why to forget about goals and focus on making systems when wanting to build new habits, and how making habits a part of your identity will make them stick with you for life.

Who Should Read It?

• This book and its lessons are aimed at the individual who wishes to form new, positive habits and make them last a lifetime.
• It is also aimed at the individual who struggles with bad habits. It teaches one how to break them, too.

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

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• The book taught me how to make building new habits simple.
• It taught me about identity change and the behavioural science of the human brain, and how to use that to my advantage to break existing bad habits through four simple rules and their inversions.
• Now, whenever I wish to change something about myself for the better, I look inwards and change the inner self through the identity shift method Clear taught, for the outer self to reflect it.
• It taught me the benefit of keeping good habits going over long periods of time and about the detriment of keeping bad habits going over long periods of time.

✍️ My Top 3 Quotes

• Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.