Thread: atomic habits chapter 1 summary:

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.

Lmao @ self help cels.

Originally Posted by Kewbrah

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

Originally Posted by HMFIC_BROWSIN

Lmao @ self help cels.

Repped. Keep them coming brah.

Stay optimisc optimisticAir.

This was a great audiobook on my runs.

Enjoy brah

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.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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.