1% Better Everyday — Small and Mighty Changes
Highlights from Atomic Habits (Part I)
Real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions.
While my peers stayed up late and played video games, I built good sleep habits and went to bed early each night.
In the messy world of a college dorm, I made it a point to keep my room neat and tidy.
I made it a habit to lift weights multiple times per week, and the in years that followed, my six-foot-four-inch frame bulked up from a featherweight 170 to a lean 200 pounds.
Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.
cue → craving → response → reward
If you offered the right reward or punishment, you could get people to act in a certain way.
The aggregation of marginal gains — searching for a tiny margin of improvement in everything you do.
They (habits) seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.
The impact created by a change in your habits is similar to the effect of shifting the route of an airplane by just a few degrees. Imagine…
