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

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

by James Clear

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A practical synthesis of behavioral science into a four-step model for designing habits, organized around the claim that small consistent changes compound into identity-level transformation.

Core ideas
  • Four Laws of Behavior Change: make it obvious, attractive, easy, satisfying (and the inverse to break habits).
  • You don't rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems — focus on environment and process, not motivation.
  • Identity-based habits: don't try to do something, try to become the kind of person who does it — every action is a vote for an identity.
Published2018
Pages319
ISBN9780735211292
habit formation, behavior change

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