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:

The key is to change the task such that it requires more work to get out of the good habit than to get started on it.

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Commitment devices increase the odds that you’ll do the right thing in the future by making bad habits difficult in the present.

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The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do. Increase the friction until you don’t even have the option to act.

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When you automate as much of your life as possible, you can spend your effort on the tasks machines cannot do yet.

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Atomic Habits:

Each habit that we hand over to the authority of technology frees up time and energy to pour into the next stage of growth.

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The downside of automation is that we can find ourselves jumping from easy task to easy task without making time for more difficult, but ultimately more rewarding, work.

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When working in your favor, automation can make your good habits inevitable and your bad habits impossible. It is the ultimate way to lock in future behavior…

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We are more likely to repeat a behavior when the experience is satisfying… Feelings of pleasure – even minor ones… teach your brain that a behavior is worth remembering and repeating.

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The world has changed much in recent years, but human nature has changed little.

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…the way your brain evaluates rewards in inconsistent across time… Usually this serves us well… But occasionally, our bias toward instant gratification causes problems.

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