Book Titles

Atomic Habits
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Bread Bad Ones

By James Clear

Year Published: 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0-7352-1129-2
Categories: Change, Habits, Improvement

278 Quotes Found

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Atomic Habits:

…remaining part of a group after achieving a goal is crucial to maintaining your habits. It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.

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Atomic Habits:

Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior.

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Atomic Habits:

There is tremendous internal pressure to comply with the norms of the group.

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Atomic Habits:

When changing your habits means challenging the tribe, change is unattractive. When changing your habits means fitting in with the tribe, change is very attractive.

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Atomic Habits:

Once we fit in, we start looking for ways to stand out.

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Atomic Habits:

…if a behavior can get us approval, respect, and praise, we find it attractive.

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Atomic Habits:

Every behavior has a surface level craving and a deeper, underlying motive.

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Atomic Habits:

A craving is just a specific manifestation of a deeper underlying motive.

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Atomic Habits:

Look at nearly any product that is habit-forming and you’ll see that it does not create a new motivation, but rather latches onto the underlying motives of human nature.

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Atomic Habits:

The same cue can spark a good habit or a bad habit depending on your prediction. The cause of your habits is actually the prediction that precedes them.

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