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4.16 AVERAGE
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Atomic Habits is the first self-help book that I found myself eagerly reading and finishing within a week and a half of starting.
It's cleverly divided into bite-sized reading portions with a general dose of antidotes keeping the reader engaged throughout, at the same time ensuring that the habit-building principles are backed by real-life examples.
It's cleverly divided into bite-sized reading portions with a general dose of antidotes keeping the reader engaged throughout, at the same time ensuring that the habit-building principles are backed by real-life examples.
He who has a why to live for can overcome any how.
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It's been a while since I've read a self-help book that didn't feel like a burden to read. Useful and catchy. I will certainly implement the advice I gathered from this book in my daily life. Recommed it to everyone 100%.
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Reread Feb 2025
Read with my work book club. It was actually a nice refresher especially since I have been trying to get some habits back on track. I think it helped me reevaluate my tactics. Happy to report that I've been hitting my workout goals this month splendidly!
The Advanced Tactics section is kind of a waste of space though.
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Original review:
Book club read #5.
"The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you."
Great book! He explains that building good habits is more about creating a good system, rather than putting all the pressure on yourself to have the best willpower, self control or determination. He sets up a few laws of behavior change, which I'm going to just list below with some of the notes I took during the read.
1) Make it obvious (cue)
Create obvious cues for your habits and design a clear plan about when/where/how to take action. Use habit stacking - increases the likelihood that you'll stick with a habit by stacking your new behavior on top of a preexisting behavior, and implementation intention - specifically state a time and place that you will do a given behavior.
Motivation is overrated and environment often matters more. When cues that spark a habit are subtle or hidden, they are easy to ignore. Redesign your environment to make cues more obvious, if you are trying to change. Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it. A stable environment where everything has a place and a purpose is an environment where habits can easily form.
2) Make it attractive (craving)
Link an action you _want_ to do, with an action you _need_ to do. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You'll rise together.
3) Make it easy (response)
Redesign your life so that the actions that matter most are the actions that are easiest to do. Increase friction associated with bad behaviors, and prime your environment to make future actions easier. Remember that decisive moments set the options available to your future self.
4) Make it satisfying (reward)
Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit. In other words, you do it because it is who you are, the person you want to be, and it feels good to be you. Keep in mind though, the quote above, and don't let your sense of identity hold you back from adapting when needed. Use habit trackers! When the evidence is right in front of you, you are less likely to lie to yourself.
Improvement is not just about learning habits, it's also about fine-tuning them. Reflection and review ensures that you spend your time on the right things and make course corrections whenever necessary.
Read with my work book club. It was actually a nice refresher especially since I have been trying to get some habits back on track. I think it helped me reevaluate my tactics. Happy to report that I've been hitting my workout goals this month splendidly!
The Advanced Tactics section is kind of a waste of space though.
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Original review:
Book club read #5.
"The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you."
Great book! He explains that building good habits is more about creating a good system, rather than putting all the pressure on yourself to have the best willpower, self control or determination. He sets up a few laws of behavior change, which I'm going to just list below with some of the notes I took during the read.
1) Make it obvious (cue)
Create obvious cues for your habits and design a clear plan about when/where/how to take action. Use habit stacking - increases the likelihood that you'll stick with a habit by stacking your new behavior on top of a preexisting behavior, and implementation intention - specifically state a time and place that you will do a given behavior.
Motivation is overrated and environment often matters more. When cues that spark a habit are subtle or hidden, they are easy to ignore. Redesign your environment to make cues more obvious, if you are trying to change. Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it. A stable environment where everything has a place and a purpose is an environment where habits can easily form.
2) Make it attractive (craving)
Link an action you _want_ to do, with an action you _need_ to do. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You'll rise together.
3) Make it easy (response)
Redesign your life so that the actions that matter most are the actions that are easiest to do. Increase friction associated with bad behaviors, and prime your environment to make future actions easier. Remember that decisive moments set the options available to your future self.
4) Make it satisfying (reward)
Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit. In other words, you do it because it is who you are, the person you want to be, and it feels good to be you. Keep in mind though, the quote above, and don't let your sense of identity hold you back from adapting when needed. Use habit trackers! When the evidence is right in front of you, you are less likely to lie to yourself.
Improvement is not just about learning habits, it's also about fine-tuning them. Reflection and review ensures that you spend your time on the right things and make course corrections whenever necessary.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
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informative
medium-paced
This book is filled with a lot of interesting tactics and information, but I would not recommend as a bible to anyone. It is evident that it is written by a reactively privileged man, who is mentally well and has the assistance of family/a wife. I think it’s a good book for people who are mentally well and already have a certain amount of intrinsic motivation. I think it could be dangerous or counterproductive for some who struggles with ED, ADHD, etc. Also towards the end I wound up skimming and reading chapter summaries…while interesting it got a bit tedious in areas. The book could probably be 1/3 smaller and just as informative.