Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits mean tiny changes, marginal gains, one percent increments which lead to huge results if done consistently. Small tiny habits completed everyday magnify your success. They help you grow into the person you wish to become.
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1. The 1% Percent Rule

James Clear says “It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis”

The one percent improvement says that first, you need to understand everything about your work, break it down into small easily achievable tasks, and improve it by just 1% every day. This can have significantly greater results in the long run.

Improving yourself by 1% every day will make you 37 times better in a year!

That’s surely an enormous amount of growth in a year.

2. Plateau of latent potential

If you take up a task, try hard but eventually give up, James says that if you just had to put a little bit more effort, you would have crossed the plateau of latent potential.

The example atomic habits give is in reference to ice cubes

"Let’s say there is an ice cube in front of you, the room temperature is 25℃ and is slowly rising to 27℃, 28℃, 30℃, 31℃; still, the ice cube does not melt. But when the temperature reaches 32℃, the ice starts melting."

This implies that in life we often try working hard till 31℃ and give up, not knowing that at 32℃ we could start seeing the results of our hard work. Once your efforts reach 32℃, people start describing it as an overnight success but in reality, it is simply taking a few essential steps daily in order to achieve massive results in the long run.

Another example is that you head to the GYM for three months but still don’t see any good results. You give up thinking that you will never be able to have a ripped body.

But only if you knew that consistently visiting the gym over and over again will eventually lead to greater results, and maybe an additional month would have gotten you closer to your fitness goal, you would’ve never stopped visiting the gym.

Success takes time and constant effort. You shouldn’t give up just because you think you can’t achieve it.

Four laws of behavioral change:-

1. Make it obvious

If you want to change a habit, but you act like there is nothing to change, you will probably not change the habit. You need to start taking action and realize that you need to change this habit right away.

2. Make it attractive

What’s more attractive – watching a movie or studying? Obviously watching a movie! This is because studying is considered boring but if you can change that by altering your studies so that it’s interesting, your mind will find it attractive and won’t procrastinate on studying.

3. Make it easy

The only way to ensure that you stay consistent is to make it so simple and easy that it doesn’t create any problem in your normal routine. The change should be so minute and smooth that you don’t understand how easy it is to do the task.

4. Make it satisfying

If the habit you wish to follow is satisfying, meaning it gives you a reward, in the end, you’ll stick to it. Ensure you use the temptation building strategy to make your task satisfying.

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