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10 Top Lessons From the Book ”Atomic Habits” 
1. Don’t judge your progress too soon or too often
Habits are incredibly powerful, yet small.
✅Life changes happen not through dramatic transformations, but tiny daily habits.
2. Habits give benefits that are huge, yet delayed
❌People underestimate how great the benefits of positive habits can be in the future.
We usually have to work a long time without much visible payoff. Then, after weeks or months of repetition, our results suddenly explode.
3. Habits must not be judged by our current outcome
🟢What is important is not where we are today, but the direction we are heading.
And the direction we are heading is determined by our daily actions.
4. Winners and losers have the same goals
For example, when 100 swimmer compete at the Olympics, they all have the same goal of winning the gold medal.
👉This means simply having a goal does not make the difference between winners and losers.
5. Goals make us less happy
🟢A big list of ambitious goals often makes us imagine that happiness lies after some imaginary future finish line.
Unfortunately, this can make us feel like a failure for most of our lives, since we will always have unfulfilled goals.
6. Focus on processes of continuous improvement
A system is the process we must follow to make progress in any area of our lives.
e.x. if our goal is to be a published author, then our system may include: writing 2 hours every evening, contacting 5 publishers every week, and…
7. The Habit Loop
- Cue
- Craving
- Response
- Reward
All our habits repeat these four steps every single time.
8. Cues: Trigger good habits more often and discourage bad ones
👉A cue is anything that triggers a habit loop for us.
It may be a thing, an environment, a specific time of day, a person, etc
9. Reconstruct Your Environment
This is about make the right cues very visible, and the wrong ones invisible.
🔴if you want to become a better artist, then keep your sketchbook somewhere you will see it daily and not hidden in a drawer.
10. Rewards
Building positive habits is challenging because the human brain has been designed to be more motivated by immediate gratification.
✅A reward is what we get for doing a habit, such as money, social approval, pleasure, etc.
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