Atomic Habits

I am really unsure why I liked reading this. I tend to dislkie peoples howing their ways into my throath

A great book to help understand the psychology of habits. This book outlines a clear way to assist people with building a life they want, while recognizing how much work it will be. All of this by creating a great foundation by habits, therefore setting you up for success.

I also loved how he broke down his 4 main points for habits. This made it much easier to understand and apply to everyday situations.

Overall quite good, easy to understand and well written, especially like the summary table. My main trouble is that I read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and found this to be 80% a repeat of that book. I can't really rate it down for that (but I kind of did anyway), but it also didn't really bring much news to the table. Sound, actionable advice, and I did manage to get something out of it ultimately, but I just found the book by Duhigg (which is mentioned in atomic habits as an inspiration) more well written if a bit less directly actionable. 

I had fairly realistic expectations going into this book, anticipating little more than a typical self-help, grindset, get-your-money-up-not-your-funny-up type of book, and I was pleasantly surprised. Clear is very practical and realistic, you can tell how knowledgeable he is every page of the book, but it's not obnoxious or filled with fluff. With a lot of non-fiction productivity type books, I've noticed a lot of repetition and rehashing of the same points, over, and over. This book hardly had any fluff or unnecessary repetition, greatly appreciated.
Clear also includes a bullet list after every chapter summarizing the material, and frankly I don't know why this practice is not more widespread. Additionally, there are many graphs and figures of his own creation, which surprised me in their effectiveness to represent his ideas.
Genuinely insightful and impressive, I would recommend this to anyone who cannot keep their shit together.

7.5/10

I'm not a big self-help guy but this was OK. Learned some cool concepts but I don't think I will actually apply any of the methods explained here.

Eu odeio livros de autoajuda. E este não é um livro de autoajuda. É muito mais que isso. James Clear teve o cuidado de escrever com uma linguagem simples e objetiva, citando vários fatos que introduzem seus pensamentos e exemplificam seus argumentos (que deixou o nerd aqui satisfeito a cada capítulo). Somado a isso, a bagagem do autor sobre neurociência é bem vasta, citando diretamente ou indiretamente cientistas que já li anteriormente ou conceitos bem explorados em outros - sem ser exaustivo em nenhum momento sequer.
Estou há alguns meses sem render nos estudos o tanto, quanto eu gostaria. Consegui perceber com esse livro, que aplicava inconscientemente técnicas para manter meus hábitos, e em que eu precisava mudar para retomar meus hábitos. Estou contente que em relação a janeiro, em fevereiro, consegui cumprir mais metas que o mês passado e estou me sentindo mais satisfeito. Tudo com mudanças pequenas que fizeram diferença ao final do mês.
Este livro pode realmente mudar seus hábitos se você seguir as recomendações do autor que leva em conta as particularidades individuais e permite que consigamos imaginar como tornar nossos hábitos mais satisfatórios e simples.

James Clear should not write more books. I think all the insights in this book come from other people, not him. The advice is helpful, I wrote some of it down, but as a book, I just don't think it's any good.

Most of the things James Clear explains in this book are the type of things that seem incredibly obvious.. once you read them.

The book gives good real-life examples and provides you with a good toolchain/framework to setup and hopefully build long-lasting habits.

It also does a great job of making concepts/tools/practices memorable. A lot of good one-liners. Some of them actually pop up in my head when I'm about to break a habit and that also helps keep me in check.

Key takeaways:

- 1% better or worse is significant after time, not daily. Time is a magnifier. With time, good habits will lead to exponential improvement, while bad habits will lead to a decline.
- Success is the product of daily choice, not once in a lifetime transformations.
- It's all about trajectory. A millionaire who spends more than they earn is on a bad trajectory, while someone with little money who saves money each month is on a positive trajectory.
- I really enjoyed listening to the story about the cycling team that looked for 1% improvements. They tried different massage oils until they found one that allowed muscles to repair faster so they could train more. They painted the inside of their workshop white so they would see dust/dirt that otherwise might have fallen into a chain or bearing, they tested different fabrics for their uniforms until they found one that allowed them to stay cool without sweating as much or catching the wind, etc.

Identity consider the difference between your beliefs and your actions

A requisite “new year, new me” read with an interesting take on habit formation.

My sister let me look over a copy of this while I was home for Christmas. I skimmed through all of the little parables / stories that serve as an intro to each chapter and focused on the author's assertions / descriptions. There is a lot of basic behavioral theory here, a lot of CBT. It's packaged in a very approachable way and I like the graphics / tables that are set out. I particularly liked “Goodhart's Law” — the notion that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

The book does have the common self-help scaffolding: start with a parable/anecdote/story, move into a basic description of a principle/method, apply the principle/method to the anecdote, then summarize. This makes it feel a little like a textbook but it does make it very skimmable and easy to reference later.

I appreciated the detailed notes section in the back. That said, I think I'm learning that I prefer a bibliography.

This was actually really good

Before I dive into it, let's talk about the unexpected twist it led me to – the realization that my life got significantly better when I stopped reading self-help books.

James Clear's “Atomic Habits” is undeniably a well-crafted guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones. It's filled with practical advice, compelling research, and engaging anecdotes. But here's the kicker – while reading it, I had an epiphany. I was so busy consuming advice on how to live my life that I wasn't actually living it.

This book, in its well-intentioned wisdom, became the catalyst for me to put down the self-help manuals and start practicing what they preach. It's ironic, really. “Atomic Habits” was both the peak and the end of my self-help journey.

I give it a solid rating for its content, but the real life-changer was the realization that dawned upon me while reading it. Sometimes, the best way to improve your life is to step out of the constant loop of seeking guidance and start taking action. So, thank you, “Atomic Habits,” for being my last self-help read and the start of my actual self-help journey.

This book started on a 5 star track for me but I'm dinging it down to a rounded up 4.

The text in this book great overall, excellent. Great advice. However it does not take onto account outside factors such as mental illness/disabilities, physical illness/disabilities, etc. and actually felt a bit offensive with some of the language/phrases used towards the end of the book. You are not a loser or an amateur if you are struggling. This kind of undid a lot of the positive messaging throughout the entirety of the book.

However, that said, I do still tink this is a great book to read and take from it what works for you. There were many “Ah Ha!” moments for myself whilst reading. It is better to show up than not, as this book says, so if you cannot do something for a week that is ok! Show up when you can. Sometimes is ok. It is progress.

It might be a good book for someone who doesn't know anything about habits. However, it doesn't bring anything new or interesting.

I got a reminder of why I don't like self-help as a genre.

I think as far as self-help books go, this one is actually one of the better ones.
It doesn't just talk about what you should strive to achieve, but gives you actionable meaningful steps and tools for how to go about achieving things.
I liked that the book was split in specific principles and discussed them separately with good examples and then gave us different methods to combine and execute those principles, based on personality and convenience.
The one reason why it doesn't get 5 stars is that I think the author went a bit overboard. There is such a thing as too much explanation and you can kind of find it here. I also think that all the methods provided (though truly helpful if you apply them properly - I have used them in management and they do work) can be a bit overwhelming to most people. By principle 3 one is already fed up and anxious to apply the theory in practice. But there's still more and there is just too much management talk for the average person to find meaningful. I rather think it will confuse and deter them from even beginning.
Still, great book that it taught me a few things. I recommend if you are struggling to adopt and maintain new habits.

I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH. I really like the part when the author mentioned how habits build up to be an uncounciouss action which really kills off any progress in the future.

Mooi boek! Heel veel van geleerd en ga er ook veel van toepassen. Ik raad iedereen aan om dit boek te lezen! Leest ook heel makkelijk weg

This book lays down the framework for forming habits and shares insightful strategies for building good and breaking bad habits. Reading this book helped me approach habits I'm trying to adopt or break from different angles. Atomic Habits is about shifting your dreams and wishful thinking into knowing exactly where you want to be and planning to get there. My key takeaway was changing our thoughts about attaining our goals to focusing on the system instead. We need to have an actionable framework on how we can move toward our goals; otherwise, we will never reach them. We must develop daily habits that allow us to achieve them. Our level of commitment to the process will determine our level of progress. Associating our habits with our identity is a great way to focus on how to transform our beliefs.

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”

I found this book to bring great insight and a new understanding of what I knew of habits. This book needs to be read and reread, notes taken and studied to get the most out of it. If you're looking to work on and fine-tune your habits, this is the book to start with. 

A good operating manual on how to build better habits and be a better person along the way.

Would read again.

Very inspiring, practical, and effective. Some material in the book feels repeated, but I suppose that's for reinforcement's sake.

Un libro lleno de herramientas útiles y prácticas, muy bien explicadas.

Ok. I'm going to be honest. I do not know why this book is lauded as one of the best in the “self help” genre. It reads very similar to plenty of other books and more importantly doesnt have a unique take to it. I find it very difficult to recommend