Atomic Habits

I 16 How to Stick with Good Habits Every Day N 1993, a bank in Abbotsford, Canada, hired a twenty-three-year-old stockbroker nam ...

wrote a page of her book. Another man moved a marble from one bin to the next after each set of push-ups. Making progress is sat ...

Behavior Change. It simultaneously makes a behavior obvious, attractive, and satisfying. Let’s break down each one. Benefit #1: ...

motivate you to get started because you don’t want to lose your progress by breaking the streak. Benefit #3: Habit tracking is s ...

Tracking isn’t for everyone, and there is no need to measure your entire life. But nearly anyone can benefit from it in some for ...

slide off track. HOW TO RECOVER QUICKLY WHEN YOUR HABITS BREAK DOWN No matter how consistent you are with your habits, it is ine ...

This is why the “bad” workouts are often the most important ones. Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you ...

This pitfall is evident in many areas of life. We focus on working long hours instead of getting meaningful work done. We care m ...

Chapter Summary One of the most satisfying feelings is the feeling of making progress. A habit tracker is a simple way to measur ...

A 17 How an Accountability Partner Can Change Everything FTER SERVING AS a pilot in World War II, Roger Fisher attended Harvard ...

“When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, ‘My God, that’s terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the ...

In general, the more local, tangible, concrete, and immediate the consequence, the more likely it is to influence individual beh ...

version read, “Bryan’s #1 objective for Q1 of 2017 is to start eating correctly again so he feels better, looks better, and is a ...

Harris lost the weight.* To make bad habits unsatisfying, your best option is to make them painful in the moment. Creating a hab ...

A habit contract can be used to add a social cost to any behavior. It makes the costs of violating your promises public and pain ...

Inversion of the 2nd Law: Make It Unattractive 2.4: Reframe your mind-set. Highlight the benefits of avoiding your bad habits. I ...

ADVANCED TACTICS How to Go from Being Merely Good to Being Truly Great ...

M 18 The Truth About Talent (When Genes Matter and When They Don’t) ANY PEOPLE ARE familiar with Michael Phelps, who is widely c ...

caliber distance runner with enough training? It’s unlikely. At peak fitness, Phelps weighed 194 pounds, which is 40 percent hea ...

much when it comes to knitting, rocket propulsion, or guitar chords. Competence is highly dependent on context. The people at th ...