Atomic Habits

THE REAL REASON HABITS MATTER Identity change is the North Star of habit change. The remainder of this book will provide you wit ...

The real reason habits matter is not because they can get you better results (although they can do that), but because they can c ...

I 3 How to Build Better Habits in 4 Simple Steps N 1898, A psychologist named Edward Thorndike conducted an experiment that woul ...

After twenty to thirty trials, this behavior became so automatic and habitual that the cat could escape within a few seconds. Fo ...

After you stumble upon an unexpected reward, you alter your strategy for next time. Your brain immediately begins to catalog the ...

Despite their efficiency, some people still wonder about the benefits of habits. The argument goes like this: “Will habits make ...

FIGURE 5: All habits proceed through four stages in the same order: cue, craving, response, and reward. This four-step pattern i ...

rarely gambles, the jingles and chimes of the casino are just background noise. Cues are meaningless until they are interpreted. ...

the first three steps, a behavior will not occur. Without all four, a behavior will not be repeated. THE HABIT LOOP FIGURE 6: Th ...

moment you are alive—even now. The brain is continually scanning the environment, predicting what will happen next, trying out d ...

Reward: You satisfy your craving to read the message. Grabbing your phone becomes associated with your phone buzzing. Problem ...

Problem phase Cue: You walk into a dark room. Craving: You want to be able to see. Solution phase Response: You flip the light ...

We can invert these laws to learn how to break a bad habit. How to Break a Bad Habit Inversion of the 1st law (Cue): Make it inv ...

Chapter Summary A habit is a behavior that has been repeated enough times to become automatic. The ultimate purpose of habits is ...

THE 1ST LAW Make It Obvious ...

4 The Man Who Didn’t Look Right THE PSYCHOLOGIST GARY Klein once told me a story about a woman who attended a family gathering. ...

Similar stories exist in other fields. For example, military analysts can identify which blip on a radar screen is an enemy miss ...

again and that track what is going on around you and within you. Cravings can arise thanks to hormones and chemicals circulating ...

Before we can effectively build new habits, we need to get a handle on our current ones. This can be more challenging than it so ...

The more automatic a behavior becomes, the less likely we are to consciously think about it. And when we’ve done something a tho ...