About the Author:

James Clear was graduated from Denison University. He is an American writer, blogger, motivational speaker and the author of the “New York Times”. You can follow him at James Clear

The content in brief:

Let me say few words and get into the book. Every parent attempts to teach good habits to his/her kids, it is an essential part of life to cultivate good habits at the early stages of life as it takes time to get great results.

1. A successful business can’t be built overnight.
2. Rome was not built in a day.
3. It is impossible to master any subject overnight unless you are a robot.

James Clear is a baseball player, he always wants to play for the nation. Unfortunately, he met with an accident in his high school days, however, his determination and tiny habits bounce him back as a successful sports person. Consequently, he realized the importance of tiny habits, and how do they work as compound interest of self-improvement. The effects your habits as you repeat them. They seem to make a little difference on but any day you can see enormous result. The book consists of 4 major laws. 1. Make it Obvious 2. Make it attractive 3. Make it easy 4. Make if satisfying.

He started the introduction with the success story of British cycling team. How the small changes, and tiny habits had helped them to success after 110 years of failure. 1 percent better each day can drive to profound change of 37 times better after one year. People make small changes and expect tangible results in a shorter period of time, and decide to stop. Habits need to persist long time to reach its threshold point. ‘Atomic Habits’ teaches how to achieve? How to cultivate a system to achieve the goal?. James Clear says setting up a goal is not important as it is temporary, but to cultivate a system to achieve the goal is important, this is permanent. How to develop a system with good habits to accomplish tangible result is the book all about. To me, James Clear is a brilliant writer, the book is  practical and logical.

The best example that I love in this book is:  Imagine you are travelling from Los Angeles to New York, if the pilot adjust the heading just 3.5 degrees south will  land in Washington D.C, instead New York.

Highlights from the book:

1. We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits. With the same habits, you will end up with same results.
2. The more you think of yourself as worthless, stupid, or ugly, the more you condition yourself to interpret life that way. You get trapped in a thought loop. The same is true for how you think about others. Once you fall into the habit of seeing people as angry, unjust, or selfish, you see those kind of people everywhere.
3. Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems under-ground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks.
4. Cancer spends 80 percent of its life undetectable, then takes over the body in months.
5. The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking.
6. It is anticipation of a reward- not the fulfillment of it- that gets us to take action. The greater the anticipation, the greater dopamine spike.

Another good book

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