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The quality of your habits determines the quality of your life from "summary" of Atomic Habits by James Clear
The trajectory of your life is largely determined by the quality of your habits. This idea is not new, but it is often overlooked. We tend to focus on specific goals or outcomes, but it is the underlying habits that shape our everyday behaviors and ultimately lead us to success or failure. Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them over time. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy. The key to behavior change is not setting big, ambitious goals, but rather focusing on the small, seemingly insignificant habits that you do every day. These habits may appear to have little impact in the moment, but over time, they accumulate into remarkable results. The 1% improvement you make each day may seem insignificant on any given day, but over the course of a year, those small improvements add up to a substantial change. Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life. We repeat about 40% of our behavior almost daily, which means that our habits shape our existence and our future. Habits are not about having something, but about becoming someone. Ultimately, your habits determine your identity. Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. The goal is not to read a book, but to become a reader. The goal is not to run a marathon, but to become a runner. Your identity emerges out of your habits. The process of building a habit is a feedback loop that is composed of four stages: cue, craving, response, and reward. The cue triggers your brain to initiate a behavior, the craving is the motivational force behind every habit, the response is the actual behavior you perform, and the reward is the end goal of every habit. By understanding this feedback loop and learning to manipulate it, you can change your habits and transform your life. It is not about making a single choice, but rather about becoming the type of person who makes good choices effortlessly. To build good habits and break bad ones, you need to make them obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying. By making good habits obvious, you increase the likelihood of performing them. By making them attractive, you increase the motivation to do them. By making them easy, you increase the likelihood of starting them. And by making them satisfying, you increase the likelihood of repeating them in the future. It is through these small changes
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