A review by simplymegy
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

“The biggest threat to success is not failure but boredom. We get bored with habits because they stop delighting us. As our habits become ordinary, we start derailing our progress to seek novelty. You have to fall in love with boredom. If you only do the work when it’s convenient or exciting, then you’ll never be consistent enough to achieve remarkable results.”

This was such a remarkable self-help book. Clear introduces his trauma in the introduction, which made this book compelling from the get-go. From there, he begins to narrate how his habits shaped who he became afterwards.

Atomic habits is a book that emphasises how minuscule habits, day by day, could lead to remarkable results. It builds and compounds. 

Clear’s book focuses on the four laws of behaviour change, aka 4 steps on how to make your habits last and get rid of bad ones:

1. Make it obvious
2. Make it attractive
3. Make it easy
4. Make it satisfying

Every chapter is note worthy, I’ve lost count on how many times I had to pause this audiobook to write notes. This is something worth reading over and over again.