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Atomic Habits Book Summary and Review
My summary and review of Atomic Habits by James Clear
I recently read Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear. This book had been on my reading list for a while, as I’ve heard many great things about it and am fascinated by how our habits can drastically impact our lives. In this blog post, I’ll try to summarize and give my personal review of Atomic Habits.
James Clear breaks the book down into six main sections. In addition to the fundamentals and advanced tactics sections are four sections containing laws of behavior change. These four laws of behavior change include making the behavior:
- obvious
- attractive
- easy
- satisfying
To break bad habits, there are four inversions to these laws. To eliminate a bad behavior, make the behavior:
- invisible
- unattractive
- difficult
- unsatisfying
The author does a great job of defining key terms throughout the book to ensure that he and the reader are on the same page. James Clear defines a habit as “a behavior that has been repeated enough times to become automatic.” He also describes…
