<ul><li>Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.</li><li>Technology creates a level of convenience that enables you to act on the smallest whims and desires.</li><li>The world has changed so much in recent years, but human nature has changed a little.</li></ul>

NOTES: Part 2

Changing our habits is challenging for two reasons;<ol><li>we try to change the wrong thing;</li><li>we try to change our habits the wrong way.</li></ol>

CHANGING HABITS

Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it

Time

<ul><li>Desire is the difference between where you are now and where you want to be in the future.</li><li>It is the emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or, indifferent.</li></ul>

Desire and Emotion

PAIN is an effective teacher.

Genes can predispose, but they can never predetermine.

<ul><li>Genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.</li><li>If you can't win by being better, win by being different.</li><li>Our genes do not eliminate the need for hard work. They clarify it. They tell us what to work hard on.</li><li>It's more productive to focus on wether you are fulfilling your own potential than comparing yourself to someone else.</li></ul>

GENES

That's how knowledge works, it builds up compound interest

Warren BUFFETT

It makes no sense to restrict your satisfaction to one scenario when there is so many paths to success

The Path to Success

refers to the strengthening of connections between neurons in the brain based on patterns of activity.

LONG-TERM POTENTTIATION

The Goldilocks Rule is that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right at the edge of their current ability. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.

GOLDILOCKS RULE

Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.

Cue, Craving, Response, Reward- Readers with psychology background may recognize these terms from:<ul><li>"Stimulus, Response, Reward" - B.F Skinner 1930s</li><li>"Cue, Routine, Reward" - Charles Duhigg</li></ul>

Four-Step Model Of Habits

Redesign your life so the actions that matter most also the actions that are easiest to do.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate

The last mile is always the least crowded.

<ul><li>And boredom is perhaps the greatest villain on the quest for self-improvement.</li><li>The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.</li><li>You have to fall in love with boredom.</li></ul>

BOREDOM

Sustaining an effort is the most important for ant any enterprise. The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right, the do them the same way every time.

When you start a new habit it should take less than two minutes.A task that can be finished in under two minutes should be done first

2 MINUTE RULE

<ul><li>the most powerful outcomes are delayed</li><li>all big things come from small beginnings</li><li>the seed of every habit is a single tiny decision</li></ul>

Things I want to Remember

walk slowly, but never backwords

<ul><li>GOALS are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.</li><li>Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves</li></ul>FORGET ABOUT THE GOALS, FOCUS ON THE SYSTEMS INSTEADcommit to the PROCESS, determine your SUCCESS.

GOALS VS. SYSTEMS

<ul><li>Never break the chain.</li><li>Never miss twice -  This is talking about missing to do a habit.</li><li>The first mistake is never the one that ruins you.</li></ul>

REMINDER:

<ul><li>You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven't changed who you are.</li><li>IMPROVEMENTS are only temporary until they become part of who you are.</li><li>The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.</li></ul>

Who YOU are...

<ul><li>Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.</li><li>Bad Habits are autocatalytic; the process feeds itself.</li></ul>

Notes: Part 1

A genius is not BORN, but is EDUCATED and TRAINED

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope"

Riots, protests, and movements are rarely the results of a single event. Instead, a long series of microaggressions and daily aggravations, slowly multiply until one events tips the scale, and outrage spreads like wold fire.

Outrage Compound

The BEST is the enemy of the GOOD.

is the ability to perform a behavior without thinking about each step which occurs when the nonconscious mind takes over.

AUTOMACITY

<ul><li>The tighter we cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.</li><li>The lack of self-awareness is poison.</li><li>Happiness is not about the achievement of pleasure, but about the lack of desire.</li><li>Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.</li></ul>

Notes: Part 3

<ul><li>Success is the product of daily habits- not once-in-a-lifetime transformation</li><li>Success is not a goal to reach or to the finish line to cross. It is a system to improve an endless process to refine.</li></ul>

Success

These are all the things that I learned and things that resonated with me. I hope that the book helped you as much as it helped me. Enjoy reading <3

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 3 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: • make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); • overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; • design your environment to make success easier; • get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

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The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 10 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: <ul><li>make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);</li></ul><ul><li>overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;</li></ul><ul><li>design your environment to make success easier;</li></ul><ul><li>get back on track when you fall off course;</li></ul>...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

James Clear is the author of "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones" He writes about habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement at jamesclear.com. His website receives millions of visitors each month and hundreds of thousands subscribe to his popular email newsletter.His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning. He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Learn more at jamesclear.com

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