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

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Impactful book, practical too which is nice. Great book on how to create of break habits.

I Atomic Habits useful as I did with the book Deep Work by Cal Newport in the sense that both are about improving productivity. Deep Work was more impactful to me though as some things in Atomic Habits were repeated from other books I've read like The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Power of Habit was more so the importance and impact habits have on you, as oppose to Atomic Habits which I found more practical in the sense that how you can make or break productive or unproductive habits.

It also reminded me of the Compound Effect by Darren Hardy because of how he talks a lot about how little changes in your daily routine can make a big impact down the line, and about compound interest.

Notes:
- Change your identity change your habits - not I’ll try and run, instead say I am a runner and I’m going for a run. Look at what you want and ask yourself what type of person would I have to be to get to that and adopt traits and habits that go with that type of person
- Every goal has systems in place. It’s the systems that you can always adapt and change. What, When and where?
- Habits are automatic, you don’t even think about it.
- Cue - Craving - Response - Reward
- Cue is first indication to remind you, a trigger - noticing
- Crave is desire and motivation of the reward. - wanting
- Response is a thought or action which is the habit - obtaining
- Reward is the end goal - Satisfy the craving.
- Use 4 laws to create a good habit - cue make it obvious, craving - make it attractive, response - make it easy, reward - make it satisfying
- Use 4 laws to break a bad habit - cue make it invisible, craving make it unattractive, response make it difficult, reward make it unsatisfying
- Remove the cue to the craving, remove the craving
- Environment is very important, your closest friends and family have great influence on your habits - because it's "normal""

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