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Atomic Habits:
Habits are mental shortcuts learned from experience… a memory of the steps you previously followed to solve a problem in the past.
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Atomic Habits:
The primary reason the brain remembers the past is to better predict what will work in the future.
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Atomic Habits:
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Atomic Habits:
It’s only by making the fundamentals of life easier that you can create the mental space needed for free thinking and creativity.
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Atomic Habits:
Without some level of motivation or desire – with craving a change – we have no reason to act.
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Atomic Habits:
What you crave is not the habit itself but the change in state it delivers.
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Atomic Habits:
If a particular action requires more physical or mental effort than you are willing to expend, then you don’t do it.
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Atomic Habits:
All behavior is driven by the desire to solve a problem.
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Atomic Habits:
Every goal is doomed to fail if it goes against the grain of human nature.
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Atomic Habits:
The human brain is a prediction machine. It is continuously taking in your surroundings and analyzing the information it comes across.
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