Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons (Book Summary)

Big effects of small habits

Maybe because of your goals, you are not able to achieve your dream life. Hearing this, it will seem strange to a lot of people. How to focus on your goals. I am not able to achieve my dream life. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

But the reality of goals is something else. If you want to achieve something. So you are not with big goals. Rather, only with atomic habits, will be able to achieve that work. First understand what happens to you. When you want to achieve your goals. Suppose your goal is You have to learn to play the guitar. When you keep a goal in your mind.

So you become an expectation. How will be your progress? You think I am here today. After 3 months, I have to be over there. Most people expect linear progress. But the reality is quite different from this. When you start playing guitar. Then you realize. That you do not even know the basics of music. It is possible It took you time to find its tutorial. When you start learning. So your progress will be very slow. Then you get disappointed. I have been working for so many days. I am not even seeing any results. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

It is called author, Valley of Disappointment. This is the reason why you are not able to achieve your goals. Because most people lose their motivation in this Valley of Disappointment. But if you wait. Keeps engaged. So you get out of it. Then your results are even better than your imagination.

as you might know. Every matter is made up of tiny atoms. The characteristics of all these tiny atoms together. The overall defines the characteristics of that matter. Similarly, if you observe your life. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

So you can see that just like those atoms. Small habits together are running your life. These Atomic Habits define your day-to-day life and quality of life. Because these habits are very small. That’s why you might not be able to notice this thing. How powerful are these in reality. If for a long time, they should be repeated regularly. Then a small action like smoking a cigarette every day. Or even to save ₹ 10. Can bring a huge impact. So if you learn to keep your habits under control. So you will learn to control your whole life.

Today you will learn some such smart ideas from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits. So that by following a proven practical method. You can develop good habits in yourself. There you can replace the bad habits. You will learn how by making some minor changes. By controlling your habits, you can achieve something big in life. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

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Small Habits Can Have Big Impact On Your Life.

Imagine an airplane took off from Los Angeles to go to New York. If while taking off, if the pilot turns the face of that plane only towards 3.5° south. So that will move the face of the plane for only a few feet.

For a person sitting outside or inside the plane. Being able to notice such a small movement. would probably be impossible. But while traveling from one side of the country to the other. The same small movement will create a huge effect. Then that plane will land in Washington, not New York. We do not give much importance to small changes.

Because its Immediate impact is very negligible. If today your body is out of shape. So even after coming in after jagging for 20 minutes tomorrow, he will remain out of shape. Similarly, today you eat a large size pizza for dinner. So within a night, your weight will increase, you will not become overweight. But this small action, you will keep repeating it regularly for a long time. So by being compounded.

It can create a much bigger effect than that. For a year, if you kept eating large size pizza every day. So then after 1 year, you will definitely become overweight. For 1 year, everyday if you do 20 minutes of jagging. So you will definitely become healthier and fitter than last year. However, when will such a big change happen? You won’t even know.

If you want to bring positive change in your life. So first you have to understand this. For that you have patience and confidence in yourself. Most important. Your habits will take you towards a better life. However, you may not get to see any immediate result. So if you ever feel like this. Despite your good habits, you do not see any positive change.

So you stop looking for change from now on. Try to focus on this. Whether in the long run, you will really see change. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

Maybe that change just isn’t that big. But for a few months or even a few years, if you persevere. Then something amazing can happen. A millionaire if every month, keeps on spending money unnecessarily. So by comparing the first month, the second month. No significant difference will be seen in their bank balance.

But if this thing, he kept doing it for many years. So one day even that millionaire will become a beggar. To bring positive change in your life. You don’t need to do anything on a very large scale. You take small actions. But keep it up for a long time. Then see what happens.(Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

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Cue, Craving, Response & Reward is the 4 step habit loop.

After entering the dark room, return home. You don’t have to think. After that, what should you do? You proceed to switch on the light key automatically. It’s a habit. A habit that you repeat thousands of times. converted into an automatic process. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

Then, in response to that craving, you might even get out of bed and start making coffee. Then after drinking that much, you get the reward of feeling alert. Now we have understood this. That’s how habits work. How do we bring this knowledge to work? You can develop good habits in yourself. At the same time, bad habits can be replaced. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

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Control Cues To Control Your Habits.

You can control a cue in three ways.

Change The Environment : Once a Boston doctor did an experiment. How he without informing his patient. Can bring changes in their dietary habits. So he got the hospital cafeteria rearranged for it. Earlier, in the fridge next to the cash counter, only soda was kept. He replaced it with water. Within the next 3 months, there was an 11% drop in soda selling and a 25% increase in water selling. His patients were taking healthier choices. Water was more easily accessible than soda, just to quench thirst. So even small changes in our environment can bring a big impact in our life. Do you want to practice guitar regularly? Put your guitar on a stand in the middle of your room. Instead of cookies and chips, you want to eat more fruit. Place the fruit in a basket, near the hands above the dining table. As much as possible. Try to keep it visible in front of your eyes. Due to which your automatic response will increase significantly. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

Make a Detail Action Plan : From now on I will maintain a healthy diet. It is not enough just to speak. If you really want to follow him. So for this, you must first create a detailed action plan. Exactly when and how will you implement it. First of all, you have to make a detail plan of it. So I will try from tomorrow. To start jogging. By not speaking like this, set your mind exactly. Waking up from sleep on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. Work will be done first. Go jogging. Then put your running shoes somewhere in front of your eyes. With the help of such a clear plan and visual cue, you can easily develop any difficult habit. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

Use Habit Stacking Method : Perhaps you want to develop the habit of meditating everyday. But throughout the day, you don’t get time. So in this case, you can use Habit Stacking Method. For example, you wake up every morning and you take a bath. So bathing everyday is your existing habit. So immediately after you finish taking a bath, you can fix time to meditate. That means, just above the existing habit of bathing, you stack the habit of meditation. With the help of such a natural momentum, you can easily develop any habit. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

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Reward Yourself Cleverly To Stick To Any Habit.

In 1954, neuroscientists James Olds and Peter Milner conducted an experiment to test Desire’s neurology. With the help of electrodes, they stopped the secretion of dopamine in the brain of some mice. This kills the desire to be alive inside those rats. Even the desire to eat dies.

After which due to not eating anything, within a few days. All those rats die. In our brain too, this is the secretion of dopamine hormone. Which creates good feelings in us. Like when we eat our favorite food. Or play pubg.

So because of this dopamine, we start feeling better. We can also bring this knowledge to build a good habit. An engineering student named Ronan Brayn knew this. Exercising is so important for them. But he did not like to exercise at all. But sitting all day, watching Netflix. He liked it very much. So Ronan hacked an exercise bike. Then connected it with my laptop. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

By writing such a code in it, a system was built. So that he will exercise at a certain speed. Only then Netflix will run in his laptop. To exercise like this Which they didn’t like at all. He linked it with his favorite work. Then the exercise was also turned into a fun activity. Now to apply this idea in your life, it is not necessary to become an engineer. If you also do not like to exercise, at all. But you cannot live even a day without listening to the voice of your favorite singer. So you can promise yourself.

when you exercise Only then will you listen to the song. Within a few days, exercise will turn into a fun activity for you. Because then in your mind, there will be a good feeling link with exercise. (Keyword : Atomic Habits Book Important Lessons)

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Make Use of The 2 Minute Rule to Start The Activity.

The less effort is required to do the work. The more reward we get from it. By repeating that work as many times as possible. Very soon, we make it our habit. Like in scrolling Facebook, we have to put very little effort.

Where the reward is much more than that. That’s why the habit of scrolling Facebook becomes very quick. But in doing 10 push-ups, 10 page book reading every day, it takes a lot of effort. Accordingly, the instant reward is also very less. Therefore it becomes difficult to develop habits like these.

So we have to try this. So that habits like exercise or book reading as much as possible. be made effortless. For this 2 minutes rules, can help you a lot. You want to do 10 push-ups daily.

So start with 1 push-up daily. Want to read 10 pages daily. Start with 1 page daily. So that it does not take more than 2 minutes to finish the work. Even with this difficult task, you will find it easier. After doing a few push-ups each day like this, you’ll probably feel like doing another push-up the next day. Remember, for any task, the most difficult step is the first step.

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