atomic habits chapter 1 summary:

[optimisticAir]

1. small, marginal gains are un-noticed for years until a few years later they become apparent when your quality of life is improved. (financial, health, sex, hobby/interest, reading, thinking well, avoiding being a drug addict)
1.a. alternatively, your life can go down the chitter by doing bad habits for years. doing something bad once won't fuk you up, just like doing 1 good thing one won't make you a winner and drive you home to fields of pussi + money

2. Thus focus on building legit systems to obtain your goals, and focus less on the goal itself. You'll get ur goal if your system is legit. short term goals like changing a lighbulb because it went out isn't the same as aquiring mastery at a hobby because the "goal of mastery" is not legit, it's the system that is put in place of repeated action to obtain the goal. every one has the same goals of getting rich and dong fuk-all but never make it while the rich actually keep working because they had systems of continual action, not short-term goals.

[Kewbrah]

I thought the first chapter was all about how good he was at baseball

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

Lmao @ self help cels.

[optimisticAir]

I thought the first chapter was all about how good he was at baseball

you're right, it's the introduction, but still he did relive the glory days lmao

Lmao @ self help cels.

[capowt]

Cliffs of summary?

[overtrainbrah]

Repped. Keep them coming brah.

Stay optimisc optimisticAir.

[CougarP01]

This was a great audiobook on my runs.

Enjoy brah

[MrBourbon]

If you work out once it won't make a difference. If you work out regularly and skip one workout it won't make a difference.

And most accomplishments CANNOT be achieved by a single massive action. If you brush your teeth once a year, no matter how thorough and incredible of a job you do, your teeth are going to rot out of your head.

[BeanGainClovis]

I'm not a fan of self help books, but I do think that habits are important. Your life is defined by habits, achieving something great requires constant discipline and years of progress. On the other hand, a steady decline to a bad situation requires the progress of bad habits.

[imanalpha]

any tips on how to break habits? I believe those are the hardest things to do
I believe in another book it discussed changing your habits by changing the setting or surroundings, for instance, people who keep smoking knowing the effects on their health.

[MrBourbon]

any tips on how to break habits? I believe those are the hardest things to do
I believe in another book it discussed changing your habits by changing the setting or surroundings, for instance, people who keep smoking knowing the effects on their health.

Disrupt the pattern that you want to change. Don't keep cigarettes in the house, or at least put them someplace inconvenient. If you snack too much, put a small portion of chips in a bowl and take that to the couch with you instead of the whole bag. Yeah, you COULD get up and refill your bowl but you probably won't, because you're lazy, and the "should I have a second bowl of chips?" adds a pause/moment for self reflection to what otherwise would have just been automatic, unconscious snacking.

[BeanGainClovis]

any tips on how to break habits? I believe those are the hardest things to do
I believe in another book it discussed changing your habits by changing the setting or surroundings, for instance, people who keep smoking knowing the effects on their health.

Just willpower, I don't think you can find that in a book. The first couple weeks after breaking a bad habit are usually the hardest. Eventually it leaves your mind.

[optimisticAir]

If you work out once it won't make a difference. If you work out regularly and skip one workout it won't make a difference.

And most accomplishments CANNOT be achieved by a single massive action. If you brush your teeth once a year, no matter how thorough and incredible of a job you do, your teeth are going to rot out of your head.

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Disrupt the pattern that you want to change. Don't keep cigarettes in the house, or at least put them someplace inconvenient. If you snack too much, put a small portion of chips in a bowl and take that to the couch with you instead of the whole bag. Yeah, you COULD get up and refill your bowl but you probably won't, because you're lazy, and the "should I have a second bowl of chips?" adds a pause/moment for self reflection to what otherwise would have just been automatic, unconscious snacking.

^

[Stray800]

Good book - here's a pretty good summary: https://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/b...atomic-habits/

[Kiop]

Repped for
2 atomic
self help
tips

[optimisticAir]

Good book - here's a pretty good summary: https://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/b...atomic-habits/

^btw if you want the legit summary, click this link. i'm mainly doing this as typing helps me collect and organize my thoughts. This thread can help others out too.
soooooo

1. your habits will lead to your identity and your current identity is based upon your habits.
The most practical way to change your identity is not through taking massive action, but rather through the continual process of changing small habits each day. You will be alive for the next 5-10 years and developing "better" habits will turn you into a "better" person because the habits will change your identity.
2. stay considerate that your old identity doesn't want to leave easily as we are creatures of habit. if you're trying to be a person that exercises more, makes more money, has more friends, has more sex, you have to go against the grain of your old belief system. we're all aware of criminals or drug addicts that can't break the cycle and it's because of habit. Starting new habits is not rewarding until months down the line when you finally reap the rewards so your brain doesn't have the feedback loop to support your new habits instantly installed, you have continually tell yourself you are trying to become a certain person to defeat the the old creature of habit.
3. Even when you defeat the old creature of habit, you need to stay consistent and continue upgrading your potential and progressing past the plateaus to continue progressing as a person. if you commit to good habits for 6-12 months when you finally get their, you can continue upgrading and getting better as that is more fun sometimes.
4. habits that become part of your identity are auto-mode, and unconscious, this is a good thing for good habits, but a bad thing for bad habits. the more evidence you have that a habit is your personality, the more ingrained you will become to believe it and live up to the characterization.
5. pursuing comfort over accomplishment is complacency.
6. decide who you want to be and take small habits and small wins to move forward. every action is a "vote" into the direction you want for your life and you do not need a unanimous ballot box to win, you just need a majority. Changing habits does not have to look pretty or perfect, and it probably won't.
7. focusing on the type of person you wish to become will be more powerful in creating habit than a goal oriented outcome (srs)

cliffs of chapter 2:

your habits for your self identity; your self identity is creating by your habits.
small change in habits and routines can lead to a new character development in yourself.