How Habits Help (and Harm!): Book Insights on Atomic Habits by James Clear

* Upending the received self-help wisdom that success is founded on setting and accomplishing your goals, James Clear focuses instead on the power of minuscule habits to transform your life. 

* Goals may be useful tools for identifying a destination to work towards, but systems of behavior – or habits – are the vehicles that get you to where you want to go. 

* Minor changes brought on by focusing on systems of habit will cause gradual improvements that are unnoticeable from day to day, but incredible over time. 

* These “atomic habits” are small-scale but they will also come to represent the building blocks of your success, as Clear demonstrates with inspiring stories from the worlds of sport, business and academia, and his own life. 

* By designing, implementing, reviewing, and perfecting your habits, you can harness the power of continuous, compounding improvement to reach your true potential and realize your ideal self.

Theme 1: Your Ideal Self - 0:29

Theme 2: Existing Habits - 6:52

Theme 3: Breaking Bad, Creating Good - 16:25

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HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE:

“The Jay Kim Show #124: James Clear (Transcript).” Jay Kim Show, 4 Jan. 2019, www.jaykimshow.com/2019/01/james-clear-transcript/.

Full Title: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

Year of Publication: 2018

Book Author: James Clear

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