IThink Studies's Key Ideas from Atomic Habits
by James Clear
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Founds In Atomic Habits 1
- If you want to stick with a habit, first you have to make it obvious.
- When and where are the most important questions for the habit formation.
- I will ( behaviour ) at ( time ) in ( location ).
- Implementation intention clears the foggy notion.
- Habit stacking :- connect new habit with old one.
- Stack your habit with immediate cue which motivates you to start that habit.
- Habits are influenced by environment.
- Small change in what you see will have big impact in what you do.
- Creating obvious visual cues improve the urges for a habit.
- One space one use.
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Founds In Atomic Habits 2
- Possible way to eradicate bad habits is to reduce the cues that causes the urge.
- Make it obvious or make it invisible.
- We have the brain of our ancestors but and the temptation the never have to face .
- Whenever you predict that opportunity will be rewarded our dopamine level will be spiked. It hits the anticipation.
- Dopamine will be released not only when you are experiencing the event but also when you are anticipating them.
- We need to make our habits attractive because it’s anticipation motivates us.
- Temptation bundling :- connecting the habit you need to do with the habit you want to do.
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Founds In Atomic Habits 3
- Your habit will become attractive when you do your favorite activity same time.
- After current habit -> habit i need -> habit i want.
- Behaviours are attractive when they help us to fit in.
- When you want to implement new habit, you just join a group where your desired habit is a normal habit.
- Culture we live in will determine which habits are attractive.
- Same cue can cause good habit and bad habit.
- Habits are attractive when we associate them with positive feelings and also unattractive when we associate them with negative feelings.
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Founds In Atomic Habits 4
- You can attach or detach from any habit just by reframing them.
- In order to refrain from bad habit make it unattractive.
- Create a motivational ritual to motivate you before starting a hard habit.
- Best is the enemy of good.
- Action is more important than emotion.
- If you want to master a habit, the key is repetition not perfection.
- More you repeat an activity more your brain become in that activity.
- Automaticity is the ability to do things without any conscious.
- Habits form based on frequency not time.
- Make the habit easy as possible.
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Founds In Atomic Habits 5
- By reducing the frictions associate with good habit , we can make habit easier.
- Human behaviour follows the law of least efforts.
- Reduce the friction associate with good habits and increase the friction associate with bad habits.
- Prime your environment to make your future action easier.
- Difference between good day and bad day us determined by the choices made at the decisive moments.
- Habits are the entry point not end point.
- 2 minutes rule : when you start a new habit, it should take less than 2 minutes to do.
- Standardize before you optimize.
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Found In Atomic Habits 6
- Living below your current means increase the future means.
- Make it easy to start then the remain will follow.
- Success is more about making good habit easy and bad habit hard.
- Commitment device : The act you do in the present that lock a habit in the future.
- We are more likely to repeat a behavior when it is more satisfying.
- What is rewarded is repeated, what is punished is avoided.
- In bad habits immediate outcome is good but the ultimate outcome is bad. In good habits this is reversed.
- People who are good at delaying gratifications are successful in life.
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Founds In Atomic Habits 7
- By giving little bit of reward or pain to the habit helps us in the process of delaying gratifications.
- Reinforcement : stack your habit with immediate reward which gives you the feeling of satisfaction at the end of the habit.
- Habit tracking is obvious, attractive and satisfying.
- Measurements help to overcome our blindness and help to have a clear vision about our process.
- Missing one is an accident but missing two is a new habit.
- The first rule of compounding is never interrupt unnecessarily.
- When consequences are severe , people learn quickly.
- Pain is a good teacher.
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Founds In Atomic Habits
- Laws and regulations are the examples, how governments change our habits by social contracts.
- Habit contract :- verbal agreement you summit to yourself with severe consequences when overruled.
- Genes never determine your destiny but they determine the place of opportunity.
- Choose the habit which suits you not the one which is popular.
- Habit must be enjoyable if you are going to stick.
- When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
- Work hard on the things that come easy.
- Secret to maximize our success is choosing the correct path.
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Founds In Atomic Habits
- Play the game that favors your strength, if not create one.
- Genes don’t eliminate the need for the hard work. They clarify where to work on.
- We can keep our motivation on going just by focusing on manageable difficulties.
- When a task is too easy or too difficult you will loose your motivation. It has to be an equal and manageable difficulties.
- People work on their peak level of motivation when the task is right on the edge of their ability.
- Scientific research found that you will be at your flow state when the task is 4% above your capabilities.
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Founds In Atomic Habits 10
- Who can handle the boredom of being everyday same succeed.
- When you are capable of doing things in autopilot, you will start to miss the way to improve that thing.
- The way to success is knowing the right thing and doing that same thing again and again.
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CURATOR'S NOTE
Atomic Habits is a great readers digest. Has lot to learn and lot to implement. One of my life changing book. Definitely a recommendation!!!!! Enjoy👌
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