Atomic Habits

1. Openness to experience: from curious and inventive on one end to cautious and consistent on the other. 2. Conscientiousness: ...

good habits. (As a reminder for the less conscientious readers among us, environment design is a strategy we discussed in Chapte ...

habit is easy, you are more likely to be successful. When you are successful, you are more likely to feel satisfied. However, th ...

What feels like fun to me, but work to others? The mark of whether you are made for a task is not whether you love it but whethe ...

among us are the ones who not only work hard but also have the good fortune to be exposed to opportunities that favor us. But wh ...

you can transform the situation from one where the odds are against you to one where they are in your favor. HOW TO GET THE MOST ...

Habits are easier when they align with your natural abilities. Choose the habits that best suit you. Play a game that favors you ...

I 19 The Goldilocks Rule: How to Stay Motivated in Life and Work N 1955, Disneyland had just opened in Anaheim, California, when ...

He spent another decade experimenting, adjusting, and practicing. He took a job as a television writer and, gradually, he was ab ...

hand. This is a challenge of just manageable difficulty and it is a prime example of the Goldilocks Rule. The Goldilocks Rule st ...

jokes that were guaranteed to get laughs. There were just enough victories to keep him motivated and just enough mistakes to kee ...

to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.” His answer surprised me becau ...

varies. This variance leads to the greatest spike of dopamine, enhances memory recall, and accelerates habit formation. Variable ...

David Cain, an author and meditation teacher, encourages his students to avoid being “fair-weather meditators.” Similarly, you d ...

H 20 The Downside of Creating Good Habits ABITS CREATE THE FOUNDATION FOR MASTERY. In chess, it is only after the basic movement ...

your shoes or make your morning cup of tea. With habits like these, good enough is usually good enough. The less energy you spen ...

MASTERING A FIELD FIGURE 16: The process of mastery requires that you progressively layer improvements on top of one another, ea ...

Although habits are powerful, what you need is a way to remain conscious of your performance over time, so you can continue to r ...

Riley was careful to point out that CBE was not merely about points or statistics but about giving your “best effort spiritually ...

showed them how their performance figures for December 1986, stacked up against November’s.” The Lakers rolled out CBE in Octobe ...