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A review by soroushtorkian
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
5.0
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The book works on laying out a framework of four laws to build better habits. But I think the title of the book does better justice than the entire contents of the book, which is something more appreciated after finishing the book.
As James Clear mentions, it is "atomic" because they are small changes that over time, lead to something big. An analogy he made was that if you give one coin to a man, does the man become rich? How about 2 coins? How about 1000 coins? Eventually, he will be rich but when is that line? He constantly reminds the reader that the changes should be small and within your control, challenging enough that you have the ability to finish them, but not too challenging to your life that you don't know where to start. Again keeping it small, keeping it atomic is where it's at.
Now while I had an overly positive view of the book, many of the ideas were regurgitations of previous more well-known books. The author also aggressively markets traffic to his website and his own habit journal every few pages.
This book is probably designed for people who don't know what they're doing in their life. If you're a doctor or lawyer, or some profession where your trait requires you to be on top of you sh**, then you'll find this boring and it would be better just to read the summaries and see if there is a new point you have never heard of before. If you're someone who just procrastinates on every aspect of life, it's worth a read.
The book works on laying out a framework of four laws to build better habits. But I think the title of the book does better justice than the entire contents of the book, which is something more appreciated after finishing the book.
As James Clear mentions, it is "atomic" because they are small changes that over time, lead to something big. An analogy he made was that if you give one coin to a man, does the man become rich? How about 2 coins? How about 1000 coins? Eventually, he will be rich but when is that line? He constantly reminds the reader that the changes should be small and within your control, challenging enough that you have the ability to finish them, but not too challenging to your life that you don't know where to start. Again keeping it small, keeping it atomic is where it's at.
Now while I had an overly positive view of the book, many of the ideas were regurgitations of previous more well-known books. The author also aggressively markets traffic to his website and his own habit journal every few pages.
This book is probably designed for people who don't know what they're doing in their life. If you're a doctor or lawyer, or some profession where your trait requires you to be on top of you sh**, then you'll find this boring and it would be better just to read the summaries and see if there is a new point you have never heard of before. If you're someone who just procrastinates on every aspect of life, it's worth a read.