Atomic Habits

* Readers of The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg will recognize these terms. Duhigg wrote a great book and my intention is to p ...

* Charles Duhigg and Nir Eyal deserve special recognition for their influence on this image. This representation of the habit lo ...

* When I visited Japan, I saw this strategy save a woman’s life. Her young son stepped onto the Shinkansen, one of Japan’s famou ...

* Interested readers can get a template to create their own Habits Scorecard at atomichabits.com/scorecard. ...

* In addition to her payment for the library, Catherine the Great asked Diderot to keep the books until she needed them and offe ...

* Fogg refers to this strategy as the “Tiny Habits recipe,” but I'll call it the habit stacking formula throughout the book. ...

* If you’re looking for more examples and guidance, you can download a Habit Stacking template at atomichabits.com/habitstacking ...

* Dopamine is not the only chemical that influences your habits. Every behavior involves multiple brain regions and neurochemica ...

* I’m so happy I was able to fit a Game of Thrones reference into this book. ...

* This is just a partial list of underlying motives. I offer a more complete list and more examples of how to apply them to busi ...

* A similar story is told in the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland. It has been adapted here with permission. S ...

* This is a foundational principle in physics, where it is known as the Principle of Least Action. It states that the path follo ...

* The phrase addition by subtraction is also used by teams and businesses to describe removing people from a group in order to m ...

* To be fair, this still sounds like an amazing night. ...

* I designed a habit journal specifically to make journaling easier. It includes a “One Line Per Day” section where you simply w ...

* The irony of how closely this story matches my process of writing this book is not lost on me. Although my publisher was much ...

* This is also referred to as a “Ulysses pact” or a “Ulysses contract.” Named after Ulysses, the hero of The Odyssey, who told h ...

* The shift to a delayed-return environment likely began around the advent of agriculture ten thousand years ago when farmers be ...

* Time inconsistency is also referred to as hyperbolic discounting. ...

* This can derail our decision making as well. The brain overestimates the danger of anything that seems like an immediate threa ...