Sometimes motion is useful, but it will never produce an outcome by itself.
The culture we live in determines which behaviors are attractive to us.
One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.
Peer pressure is bad only if you’re surrounded by bad influences.
One of the most practical ways to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce exposure to the cue that causes it.
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Small habits don’t add up. They compound. That’s the power of Atomic Habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
Improvements is not just about learning habits, it’s about fine-tuning them.
Genes do not determine your destiny; they determine your areas of opportunity.
With our bad habits, the immediate outcome usually feels good, but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse.
Positive emotions cultivate habits. Negative emotions destroy them.
Habits can be completed in a few seconds but continue to impact your behavior for minutes or hours afterward.
Each day is made up of many moments, but it is really a few habitual choices that determine the path you take.
The most effective form of learning is practice, not planning.
Your current habits are not necessarily the best way to solve the problems you face; they are just the methods you learned to use.
It is the anticipation of a reward – not the fulfillment of it – that gets us to take action.
If history serve as a guide, the opportunities of the future will be more attractive than those of today.
If you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment.
People who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habits are more likely to follow through.
You are not born with your present beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience.