Atomic Habits: the life-changing

The book starts with James’ own personal history about how setting little habits and compounding these habits into more and better ones lead him to recover from a serious accident to be a college elite baseball player.

The book uses these kinds of anecdotes about habits, and supports them with scientific research behind. The combo makes the narrative pleasant, and not just a collection of peer-reviewed habit articles, as you can reflect on the characters of his stories.

1. Small compounded habits drive your actions.

Positive and consistent habits are important but most important is taking care of the negative ones. Strong negative habits can take over your potential gains from good habit formation.

You can still have bad habits and be successful. You just need the majority, and not all, of your actions heading to your aims.