ATOMIC HABITS
by James Clear1 min read | February 23, 2020
A practical guide to finding queues in existing habits to insert new habits so they stick.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
RULE OF THUMB 👍
- A new habit should not take more than 2 minutes to complete.
- Habit Stacking - After (current habit)I will perform (new habit).
- Temptation Bundling (Doing what you need to with what you want to).
LEARNINGS ✍️
- You binge on something because you think it's gonna make you feel in a better state than how you feel in your current state.
- Instead of saying "*you have to do this" say "you get to do this*". You transition from seeing these behaviors as a burden and turn them into opportunities.
- Prime your environment to make future actions easier.
- Break the habits you wanna make into 2 min phases of habit. Then do just one phase for a few days (this way you are casting a vote for your habit).
- Standardize before you optimize. You cannot improve a habit that doesn't exist.
- Missing a habit once is an accident, missing the habit second time is the start of a new bad habit.