Irza Fidah's Key Ideas from Atomic Habits
by James Clear

Achieving goals only changes your life momentarily. This is counterintuitive to improvement. What we really need to change are the systems that produce those results.

If you find it difficult to change your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem lies in your system. Bad habits repeat not because you don't want to change, but because you have a faulty system for change.

Changing habits is difficult for two reasons: (1) we try to change something but miss the target, and (2) we try to change habits in the wrong way.

Your identity comes from your habits. You aren't born with inherent beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience. More precisely, your habits depend on how you embody your identity.

Habits don't limit freedom. They create it. In reality, people who neglect their habits often have the least freedom.

One of our biggest challenges in changing habits is maintaining awareness of what we're actually doing. This helps explain why the consequences of bad habits can suddenly appear.

If you want to increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring, you need to make it attractive.

The actual cause of your habits is the anticipation that precedes the habit. Prediction leads to feelings.

Habits become attractive when associated with positive feelings and unattractive when associated with negative feelings.

In practice, it's not crucial how long a habit takes to become automatic. What matters is that you're doing what's necessary to make progress. Whether the action becomes fully automatic isn't so important.

The more often you ritualize the beginning of a process, the greater your chances of entering deeper focus needed for major things.

The best way to dismantle bad habits is to make their implementation impractical. Increase the barriers until you're reluctant to even do them.

The formula for stacking habits + monitoring habits is: After (current habit), I will (monitor my habit).

The secret to maximizing your chances of success is choosing the right field of competition.

The only way to become great is to stay enthusiastic about doing the same thing over and over again. You must fall in love with boredom.

The positive side of habits is that we can do something without thinking. The negative side is that we ignore opportunities for small mistakes to occur.