Explore the World's Best Ideas
Join today and uncover 100+ curated journeys from 50+ topics. Unlock access to our mobile app with extensive features.
How your habits shape your identity
- Outcome-based habits focus on what you want to achieve. Identity-based habits focus on who you wish to become.
- Usually, people try to change their habits by focusing on what they want to achieve, resulting in outcome-based habits.
- But the author's approach focus on identity-based habits. With this approach, we focus on who we desire to become.
- Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act as per their belief.
- For instance - If you believe you have nice hair then you will develop all sorts of habits to maintain your hair.
29
430 reads
2-step process to change your identity
- First, decide the type of person you want to become and second, prove it to yourself with tiny wins.
- For example:- you want to write a book. Ask yourself, who is the type of person that can write a book? The answer is the person who writes consistently. Now your focus shifted from writing a book (outcome-based) to being the type of person who is consistent(identity-based).
- You need to know who you want to be and then changing your habits would be easy.
- Your habits shape your identity and your identity shape your habits. It is a two-way street.
33
360 reads
Build better habits in four simple steps
- Before knowing building better habits, first, we need to know the science behind how habits work.
- Habits form in the following order: Cue → craving → response → reward
- Cue: A cue is like a trigger or a signal that prompts you to start a habit. It's something that you see, feel, hear, or experience that reminds you of the habit you want to perform.
- Craving: Craving refers to the desire or longing you feel when you encounter the cue. It's the feeling that drives you to want to do the habit. It's like the internal motivation that pushes you to take action.
28
333 reads
- Response: The response is the actual habit or action you perform in response to the cue and craving.
- Reward: The reward is the outcome or benefits you get from completing the habit.
- Together, these four elements create a habit loop, where the cue triggers a craving, which leads to a response (habit), and then you receive a reward, creating the loop and making the habit more likely to repeat in the future.
- Understanding and controlling these elements can help you build good habits and break bad ones.
- Hence, if you want to break the bad habit then you should be doing the following thing
28
297 reads
28
313 reads
How to create a good habit
- In a nutshell, to build good habits follow the following rule
- The 1st law (Cue) → Make it obvious
- The 2nd law (Craving) → Make it attractive
- The 3rd law (Response) → Make it easy
- The 4th law (Reward) → Make it satisfying
34
312 reads
How to break a bad habit
- Inversion of the 1st law (Cue) → Make it invisible
- Inversion of the 2nd law (Craving) → Make it unattractive
- Inversion of the 3rd law (Response) → Make it difficult
- Inversion of the 4th law (Reward) → Make it unsatisfying
33
306 reads
Questions to ask if you want to change your behaviour
- How can I make it obvious?
- How can I make it attractive?
- How can I make it easy ?
- How can I make it satisfying?
- If you ever feel why don't I do what I say then the answer can be found somewhere in these four laws.
34
310 reads
IDEAS CURATED BY
CURATOR'S NOTE
I understood important facts how we can change our habits.
“
Curious about different takes? Check out our Atomic Habits Summary book page to explore multiple unique summaries written by Deepstash users.
Different Perspectives Curated by Others from Atomic Habits
Curious about different takes? Check out our book page to explore multiple unique summaries written by Deepstash curators:
2 ideas
1 idea
Rohit Patnaik's Key Ideas from Atomic Habits
James Clear
8 ideas
Aakash Patil's Key Ideas from Atomic Habits
James Clear
Discover Key Ideas from Books on Similar Topics
29 ideas
The Mentally Strong Leader
Scott Mautz
23 ideas
The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy
13 ideas
The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates