Atomic Habits

“If a behaviour can get us approval, respect, and praise, we find it attractive.” - @JamesClear

"Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action." - @JamesClear

“Researchers estimate that 40 to 50 percent of our actions on any given day are done out of habit.” - @JamesClear

[Charles Darwin] “In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” - @JamesClear

“Reframing your habits to highlight their benefits rather than their drawbacks is a fast and lightweight way to reprogram your mind and make a habit seem more attractive.” - @JamesClear

“The ending of any experience is vital because we tend to remember it more than other phases.” - @JamesClear

“The most effective form of motivation is progress.” - @JamesClear

“Stepping up when it’s annoying or painful or draining to do so, that’s what makes the difference between a professional and an amateur.” - @JamesClear

"True behaviour change is identity change." - @JamesClear

“Improving is not just about learning habits, it’s also about fine-tuning them.” - @JamesClear

“Behaviour only shifts if the punishment is painful enough and reliably enforced.” - @JamesClear

“All habits serve you in some way - even the bad ones - which is why you repeat them.” - @JamesClear

“If you’re already interested in a habit, working on challenges of just manageable difficulty is a good way to keep things interesting.” - @JamesClear

“The human brain is a prediction machine. It is continuously taking in your surroundings and analysing the information it comes across.” - @JamesClear

"Your behaviours are usually a reflection of your identity. What you do is an indication of the type of person you believe that you are - either consciously or non consciously." - @JamesClear

"Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change." - @JamesClear

“Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.” - @JamesClear

"When you finally break through the Plateau of Latent Potential, people will call it an overnight success. The outside world only sees the most dramatic event rather than all that preceded it." - @JamesClear

"It doesn’t matter how successful or unsuccessful you are right now. What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path towards success. You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results." - @JamesClear

“Professionals know what is important to them and work toward it with purpose; amateurs get pulled off course by the urgencies of life.” - @JamesClear