Atomic Habits

A Book Review

Atomic Habits is good on many levels. The chapters are short, the words are properly used and there is a good economy of sentences. You don't need to say profound things in so many words.

Beyond these, it also offered some of the most powerful insights on habits that I have ever read anywhere. It combines biology, psychology, history, and good data to make a point. Nearly every chapter begins with a story or a study. You see clearly that you are not reading some jargon or overinflated self-help book, this is really a book that will help you. I thought about each chapter as I read, I couldn't disagree with a single thing.

Atomic Habits offers you a guide if you want to break bad habits and if you want to build new ones. For me, the biggest takeaway is the fact that building habits should be a simple, gradual, long-term process and not a short-term, big-moment decision. My experience, and that of many others, show that this method doesn't work. Working gradually to develop a habit is far more sustainable, it could be undetectable at first, but it is what sticks in the end.

There are basically 4 Laws for breaking bad habits.

1. Make it invisible.
2. Make it unattractive.
3. Make it difficult.
4. Make it unsatisfying.
and there are 4 Laws for building new habits.
1. Make it obvious.
2. Make it attractive.
3. Make it easy.
4. Make it satisfying.

Apparently, these are inversions of the laws. But try them and see.

I can never recommend this book enough. If you want to build new habits, this is a book you should read. And generally, if you are a young person, you should read this, you will need the wisdom in it for life!

I've shared excerpts of it on my Facebook page already.