![]() I'm gonna provide my own anecdote which made me start questioning the "easiness" approach to habit forming. Maybe that was the author's ultimate message, i honestly don't know. ![]() So wouldn't it be better to cultivate an identity based on constant reflection and self awareness to achieve your goals versus implementing various strategies. Towards the end in the "advanced" portion of the book, the author talks about the "Downsides of creating good habits", and that you must reflect periodically to see where you're at as a person overall. And that's where you just push through anyway, push through to greatness. But later the author concedes that sometimes inevitably you hit a point where it's not attractive, easy, satisfying, and not very obvious how to proceed. The cheat sheet strategies for forming habits are all about making it obvious, attractive, easy, satisfying. I feel like this entire section should have just been integrated into the rest of the book.įor every statement, i kept thinking where in the cheat sheet it would fit.Ģ)Happiness is simply the absence of desire.ģ)It is the idea of pleasure that we chase.Īll in all i think there's a cognitive dissonance type of issue at play here. That would have been more interesting to me.Īt the very end of the book there was an Appendix section, where he went over random "wisdom like" statements and a paragraph or 2 explaining them to further fill in the cracks so to speak. I wish the whole book was about how self awareness and desired identity influences lifestyle. This is the first big point he makes in the book, but he barely mentions it again until far later in the book, and only briefly. The author clearly mentions that self awareness and identity are a crucial aspect in habit development. How are you gonna have a whole chapter about habit stacking, and only like a page about Tao Te Ching. I feel like the advanced section should have been the meat of the book, and the cheat sheet portion should have stayed short. He also throws in a bit of the David Goggins mentality in there just in case all else fails, like "Fall in love with boredom", "accept suffering", that type of deal. In this advanced section the author leaves the cheat sheet framework and the book opens up a bit to cover concepts ranging from the Lakers coach's "Career Best Effort" strategy for his team, all the way to some quotations of Tao Te Ching. It's all padding for sure, but I am a sucker for cool stories so I don't mind and i can only imagine how much drier the book would be without the stories.Īfter the cheat sheet portion of the book, it delves into an "Advanced" discussion. He uses a ton of anecdotes in every chapter as a real world example for each strategy in the cheat sheet. It makes sense to get this stuff done upon waking up so it doesn't hang over your head the rest of the day. I mean this stuff is just common sense, of course it's easier to do some cardio after calisthenics, and then hop in the shower. My habit stacking is that after the breath yoga, i will do some meditation, then i will do some calisthenics, then some cardio, then ill take a shower. My implementation intention is basically when I wake up I will immediately do some breath yoga. Take implementation intention and habit stacking for example. Through that experience you naturally come across these strategies. Maybe my viewpoint is skewed because I've been actively working on my lifestyle for years now in pursuit of health and the fastlane. Read the cheat sheet for yourself, do you really need a chapter dedicated to each strategy? They're not very complex to understand. Over half the book was devoted to fleshing out the statements made in this published cheat sheet. I do feel the book way too long in some places and not nearly enough in others. The book uses a kitchen sink approach to cover the topic of habits from many angles. It's hard to give atomic habits a bad rating when it does deliver on a discussion of habits, and it made me think. (Removed a star because of bad behavior, explained towards the end in review)
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