ATOMIC HABITS BY JAMES CLEAR HOW TO
We need to learn how to be consistent with our habits.įor this, James Clear explains the following: Four laws of behavioral change That’s why most bad habits like drinking smoking and eating junk food never fade away – it gives us immense excitement every time. When Habits get boring we need to figure out a way to get that excitement back or else the habit fades away. Saving money is nothing but sacrificing your life, instead say that living below your means today will ensure your future means are well-taken care off. Don’t say things like, I get tired of going to the gym, instead say the gym builds strength and endurance which makes me more active.ĭon’t tell your mom that chores are boring, rather say that chores help me burn fat which makes me healthy. Try to say everything in a positive manner. Once you get the answers to that, you need to start taking small actions every day to possess those qualities. Having a goal is great, but it might confuse you instead, have a predefined system this will keep you in track with your path to achieve your goals.Īre you becoming the type of person you want to become? Have you improved yourself by 1% today? Asking questions like these trigger your mind into thinking – what qualities should a person possess if he wants to find success in a particular field. Whereas a system is a process on how to achieve the goal more systematically and smartly. Goals are your end results for example – I want to be fit and healthy. He says that instead of focusing on goals, focus on systems. James terms the level of disappointment faced by us when we don’t get results as the valley of disappointment. In reality, the results of our efforts are often delayed, not for a few days, but months maybe even years until we realize the true value of previous work we have done. We often feel that progress should come quickly to us, that a task we begin will soon reap benefits for us. You shouldn’t give up just because you think you can’t achieve it. You give up thinking that you will never be able to have a ripped body.īut only if you knew that consistently visiting the gym over and over again will eventually lead to greater results, and maybe an additional month would have gotten you closer to your fitness goal, you would’ve never stopped visiting the gym. Once your efforts reach 32℃, people start describing it as an overnight success but in reality, it is simply taking a few essential steps daily in order to achieve massive results in the long run.Īnother example is that you head to the gym for three months but still don’t see any good results. This implies that in life we often try working hard till 31℃ and give up, not knowing that at 32℃ we could start seeing the results of our hard work. But when the temperature reaches 32℃, the ice starts melting. Let’s say there is an ice cube in front of you, the room temperature is 25℃ and is slowly rising to 27℃, 28℃, 30℃, 31℃ still, the ice cube does not melt. The example atomic habits gives is in reference to ice cubes If you take up a task, try hard but eventually give up, James says that if you just had to put a little bit more effort, you would have crossed the plateau of latent potential. That’s surely an enormous amount of growth in a year.
Improving yourself by 1% every day will make you 37 times better in a year! This can have significantly greater results in the long run. The one percent improvement says that first, you need to understand everything about your work, break it down into small easily achievable tasks, and improve it by just 1% every day. James Clear says “It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis”
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