“Atomic Habits” is an approach and lifestyle described in the book by a writer, blogger, and motivational expert James Clear.
The full title of the book is “Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones”.
The author argues that success lies in constant, small improvements, not radical changes.
What do you think?
Clear guy. He found a universal first cause (suitable for everyone, regardless of what you do), why your things aren’t going well.
He talks about the fact that you are not achieving results because your efforts are focused on the result itself. But it should be such that the result flows out of your best habits, because habits are a real means of achieving the result. When you work on something, you don’t notice that the habits set the tone.
Armed with the theory of the anchored bed, he expanded it and stated that achieving big results happens through many small steps that he transformed into atomic habits.
He doesn’t write about the bed in the book to avoid repetition, but mentions dishes and cleaning the room. As if by doing this, you take control of your affairs.
And his most cunning trick is to talk at the beginning about how he came to this conclusion through a tragedy in his youth, while being on the verge of death.
Yes, he’s good that he managed to get out of it. Everyone will have a similar story, like an obsession with an idea during a difficult period helping us overcome difficulties.
He tells how at one point his career as an athlete was crossed out, and this worried him even more than the risk of not surviving at all.
Be careful when you notice this in speakers’ narratives. You’ll be pouring it into your ears from now on.
– The path of 1000 steps begins with the first step
– A big path begins with the first step
This is a long-known truth from Confucius. It doesn’t matter who the true author of the words is, probably some vagrant, but Confucius heard it.
Clear reinterpreted this truth and found that the basis of action is motivation. A single step means nothing in itself. The meaning lies in the foundation from which the motivation to take this step was born.
Here I would like to make a digression. Does this happen to you? You take a good book, read it and reach a point where the author leads to a very good thought that he will promote on two pages. And you immediately understand what is being said and even more, you once came to this yourself!
To cultivate this foundation, repeated repetition of simple actions is required. These actions turn into habits, and it’s difficult to shake these habits, and on their basis healthy motives for new actions will be born. He connects the repetition of actions with habits and gives an argued answer that action has meaning when it is repeated (when mastery develops) and when your actions are aimed at changing your self-perception.
An uncleaned bed closes for men with a wife 
, and as I wrote in my Telegram channel, “Room of Breaking,” all authors in the preface of books thank their wives for helping them become who they became.
Next time I’ll try to analyze some quotes from the book.
Focus should be on the person you want to become, not on achieving results. It’s not the results you want to achieve that should influence your development. But your values, principles and identity, which form your habits, so that it works at an automatic level.