Atomic Habits

make a few changes, but the results never seem to come quickly and so we slide back into our previous routines. Unfortunately, t ...

of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cl ...

loop. The same is true for how you think about others. Once you fall into the habit of seeing people as angry, unjust, or selfis ...

This is one of the core reasons why it is so hard to build habits that last. People make a few small changes, fail to see a tang ...

FIGURE 2: We often expect progress to be linear. At the very least, we hope it will come quickly. In reality, the results of our ...

Prevailing wisdom claims that the best way to achieve what we want in life —getting into better shape, building a successful bus ...

Bowl winner Bill Walsh, “The score takes care of itself.” The same is true for other areas of life. If you want better results, ...

results, but the results are not the problem. What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results. When you s ...

after you achieve it? This is why many people find themselves reverting to their old habits after accomplishing a goal. The purp ...

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run. Habit ...

W 2 How Your Habits Shape Your Identity (and Vice Versa) HY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones? Fe ...

THREE LAYERS OF BEHAVIOR CHANGE FIGURE 3: There are three layers of behavior change: a change in your outcomes, a change in your ...

of change are useful in their own way. The problem is the direction of change. Many people begin the process of changing their h ...

response, but this person still believes they are a smoker who is trying to be something else. They are hoping their behavior wi ...

to stop chewing my nails until they grew out a bit. Through mindful willpower alone, I managed to do it.” Then, Clark did someth ...

Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity. What you do is an indication of the type of person you believe that yo ...

The more deeply a thought or action is tied to your identity, the more difficult it is to change it. It can feel comfortable to ...

Whatever your identity is right now, you only believe it because you have proof of it. If you go to church every Sunday for twen ...

change is meaningful, it actually is big. That’s the paradox of making small improvements. Putting this all together, you can se ...

These are big questions, and many people aren’t sure where to begin— but they do know what kind of results they want: to get six ...