katie sheehy’s Reviews > Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones > Status Update

“when you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.” combine your skills!!! peak motivation + working on tasks right on the edge of your current abilities. habits + deliberate practice = mastery. keep your identity small and flexible - more general so you can grow further and it is less rigid.

make it satisfying. “what is immediately rewarded is repeated. what is immediately punished is avoided.” immediate satisfaction! visual measurements help w making progress(habit tracker, moving 1 item each time u do a thing, punch cards, etc). don’t break the chain! u can stack habit tracking after a current habit. when u miss a habit: never miss twice! habit contracts -make bad habits immediately unsatisfying

make it attractive! temptation bundling -pair action u want to do w 1 u need to do. motivation ritual - do something u enjoy immediately b4 difficult habit. motion vs action - motion useful sometimes, will never produce outcome by itself. start w repetition not perfection! make it easy! law of least effort. inc friction 4 bad habits, red friction 4 good habits. habits= entry point. scale habits down to 2 min version

log habits & score them & call them out, specific habit stacking and scheduling, environment > motivation, make good habit cues obvious in an environment and bad habit cues invisible

“i hate self-improvement” she emphatically claims as she reads The self-improvement book