Atomic Habits - James Clear

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

1. Dive into a captivating book that explores the art of crafting positive habits to fuel your personal growth and pave the way for success.
2. To cultivate good habits, remember these golden rules: make them obvious, make them appealing, make them effortless, and make sure they bring you joy and satisfaction.
3. When it comes to breaking bad habits, follow this guide: make them hard to spot, make them unappealing, make them challenging to maintain, and make sure they leave you feeling unsastified.

🎨 Impressions

Building habits is like having a superpower that helps us do things without needing tons of willpower. Habits? They're like having an autopilot for our actions. They take away the stress of constantly using up brainpower and make things automatic. It's as easy as popping in your earbuds to focus, packing your gym bag the night before, or even just shooting off a quick email response. These little habits might seem small, but they're like the secret passageway to achieving bigger goals in life. They sneakily help us get closer and closer to where we wanna be. This book has expanded my perspective on how even the smallest aspects of life, or minor improvements in daily routines, can accumulate and bring about significant transformations in people's lives.

📀 How I Discovered It 

Ali Abdaal reccomended the book that really trigger something in me. Ali wrote a summary of the book which painted a vivid picture of the author brilliance. Before i knew it, i was on the hunt to purchase a kindle with the intention of reading this book until finish and at the same time cultivating my own reading habit. It wasn't just any impulse buy, it was for me a commitment to form the reading habit. I devoured the book so fast because the content of the book was craft so well and it intrigues me for every time i click on a next page. The book sparked something in me, a thirst for knowledge, not to become smarter but becoming better slowly in each and every day.

🦉 Who Should Read It? 

The book have something for everyone. Its for the student who want to ace their exams, its for professional aiming for the next promotion, its for the dreamers who want to turn their goals into reality, its for procrastinator who want to kick start their productivity and the seekers who want to unlock their full potential. Just go and read it, im sure you will not regret it.

☘️ How the Book Changed Me 

1. The book tought me on the importance of prioritizing my processes and efforts over fixating solely on the end outcome.
2. To embed a professional identity in my life because professional sticks to their schedule while amateurs let life get in their way.
3. Habit change starts from 1% improvement every day or in part of life. A single 1% doesn't make any difference but a thousand of them do.

✍️ My Top Quotes

• Daily habits will form success in the long run.
• Success and failure are magnified by time. Good habits feels bad in the beginning but the result is satisfying, bad habit makes your time your enemy.
• Forget about goals, focus on system instead as it leads to those result.
• You have to fall in love with boredom.
• Success is not a goal to reach or a finish line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.
• Happiness cannot be pursued, it must ensue.
• The trick to doing anything is first cultivating a desire for it.
• Emotions drive behavior.
• Professional sticks to the schedule, amateurs let life get in the way.
• To become great, certain skills do need to become automatic.
• The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right, then do them the same way every time.
• The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.
• It’s remarkable the friendships you can build if you don’t stop caring.
• Happiness is simply the absence of desire. When you observe a cue, but do not desire to change your state, you are content with the current situation.

📒 Summary + Notes

1. Hey, forget about just setting goals if you want to up your game. It's all about focusing on perfecting your system instead.
2. Don't just aim to finish a book; aim to morph into a full-fledged bookworm.
3. Running a marathon is cool and all, but the real win is embracing the title of a committed runner.
4. Who cares about hitting a specific weight? Let's aim to become hardcore fitness enthusiasts instead!
5. Learning an instrument is neat, but how about transforming into a legit musician?
6. Ever wonder why those habits just won't stick? It's all because of your self-image holding you back. It's time to ditch those old identities and level up to the best version of yourself.
7. Your habits? They're like the building blocks of who you are.
8. Ask yourself: Am I just keeping busy, or am I actually making a difference?
9. Keep the habits that match up with who you want to be and ditch the ones that don't fit the bill.
10. Feeling like you're lacking motivation? Maybe what you really need is a clear sense of direction.
11. You know who often seems to have the most self-control? The ones who hardly even need to use it.
12. Ever found yourself spending ages getting ready to start something, only to realize you're just putting off the real work? Yeah, that's a sign it's time to switch from planning to doing.
13. Wanna get really good at something? Well, it's all about doing it over and over again, not about doing it perfectly every time.
14. Here's a cool trick: Make your habits super easy so that even on those days when you're feeling totally lazy, you'll still do them.
15. Bad habits might give you a quick buzz, but in the long run, they leave you feeling pretty crummy.
16. Good habits might not feel all that great at first, but trust me, they lead to awesome stuff in the end.
17. Want to stick to a habit? It's all about feeling like you're crushing it and feeling successful.
18. Sometimes a little reward can get you started on a habit, but it's your sense of who you are that keeps you going.
19. Here's a math lesson: Bad days hurt more than good days help. So, don't go messing up that compounding effect by skipping out on your habits!
20. Even if you're not feeling your best, doing just a little bit of your good habits reminds you that you're still rocking it.
21. What sets successful people apart is their ability to keep going even when they're bored.
22. Professionals stick to their schedules; amateurs let life interfere.
23. People never regretted showing up and working on things that matter to them.
24. Important Summary No.1
    1. Peak motivation occurs when tackling tasks that challenge our current abilities.
    2. Boredom poses a bigger threat to success than failure.
    3. As habits become routine, they lose appeal and satisfaction, leading to boredom.
    4. While anyone can work diligently when motivated, it's persistence through uninspiring moments that sets professionals apart from amateurs.
1. Professionals adhere to their schedules, while amateurs allow distractions to intervene.
25. Merely repeating the same actions without thought won't lead to excellence. While habits are crucial, they alone aren't enough for mastery. Mastery requires a blend of automatic habits and intentional practice. Combining Habits with Deliberate Practice leads to Mastery.
26. Practice until you've mastered the skill internally, then build upon it to progress further in your development.
27. Every habit attained unlocks a new level of performance, perpetuating an endless cycle of improvement.
28. As you grow comfortable, beware of falling into complacency. The remedy? Implement a system for reflection and review.
29. Reflection and review foster continual improvement by highlighting mistakes and offering paths for enhancement.
30. I’m the type of person who builds and creates things.
31. Important Summary No.2
    1. Habits enable automatic actions but can lead to overlooking small errors.
    2. Mastery requires combining habits with deliberate practice.
    3. Reflection and review help maintain awareness of performance.
    4. Clinging tightly to an identity hinders growth.
32. Initially, small improvement seems insignificant, such as collecting 10 cents a day. However over a period of time, stacking this incremental changes gradually changes the scale of life. With perseverance , it will hit a tipping point, and suddenly maintaining a good habit feels easier. Now the system is working for you instead of against you.
33. How to form a habit;
    1. Make it visible: a habit might slip your mind, requiring you to make it more obvious.
    2. Make it attractive: you may lack motivation to start with the habit, necessitating you to make it attractive.
    3. Make it easy: Some habits may seem daunting, prompting you to simplify them.
    4. Make it satisfying: maintaining a habit might feel unrewarding, urging you to make it satisfying.