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

Atomic Habits

An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

2016 • 168 pages

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This was a really satisfying book to say the least. After some of the initial chapters, I raced off to finish the book. The word “habits” in the title might have been a turn off for me initially. Who wants to read a big book about developing good habits? And maybe I only persisted after the first few chapters because Meera recommended this. Throughout the book, Clear uses the term Habits quite generously to include any repetitive action that we might do in our lives and which is basically a learnt response to any situation or problem in our life that we have to face more than once. That is what makes this book so useful. It teaches you one thing and one thing well. A general framework for habit engineering and through that - engineering your own life. Willpower is something like a bottle of water on a desert journey that you should be conserving every ounce of. “Engineer your life so that you won't have to use your will power”, is one of the key takeaways of the book. The idea that it is not the lack of motivation that has been holding you back from doing a lot of things, that you have always wanted to do but just couldn't get around to doing, is indeed a refreshing one. It really is a must read for someone who is starting off on the journey to self improvement.

July 18, 2022