These are the best quotes from the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.
This book by James Clear will completely transform your perspective on habits. Atomic Habits is based on how small changes every day can lead to massive change over time. Atomic Habits by James Clear proved you with a framework to build good habits and bread bad ones.
Quotes from book Atomic Habits by James Clear
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger.
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close. The many. The powerful.
The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
A good habit is a reward in itself.
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review are the antidotes.
The human brain evolved to prioritize immediate rewards over delayed rewards.
Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long run.
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.
You do not rise to the level of your goals. you fall to the level of your systems.
True long-term thinking is goalless thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
Before we can effectively build new habits, we need to get a handle on our current ones.
Standardize before you optimize. You can’t improve a habit that doesn’t exist.
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.
Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.
Your actions reveal your true motivations.
Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
Learnings from the book
Concentrate on your change systems rather than your aims. To build healthier habits, use ‘The Four Laws of Habit’ creation.
Work on improving habit-forming situations. For habit formation, use specific areas for certain functions.
Form a group of individuals who will hold you accountable. Make use of the people in your life to help you make further changes.
Develop a structure that allows you to review your work on a regular basis. Your identity, like your habits, evolves with time. Make a review system so you can keep track of your development over time.
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