ATOMIC HABBIT BY JAMES

CLEAR BOOK REVIEW

INTRODUCTION:-

First of all asslam-u-alaikum this assignment has given by PROFESSOR

SHEHZAD he gave us a task of book review of ATOMIC NiHABIT by JAMES CLEAR. The

sir expected us that I will cover that points (summary, what I learned, how it will improved my

life, is this book related to real life or not and conclusion) in this book review. I will try my best

to achieve and learn those things or lessons that sir actually want to deliver us through the

assignment of the book review of ATOMIC HABIT.

Summary of the Book:-

The author of this book is JAMES clear in this book tried to told us that

how we improve our life? He suggested that the instead of change your life in one day start from

tiny changes he also said that the “Tiny changes make a big difference”. He said that every men

have their habits some of them have good habits and some have bad like a person who is in the

bad habit of smoking if you said him that you may leave your bad habit of smoking most of the

times he said that “I tried my best but I can’t” you know why he can’t? Because he want to leave

this habit in one day. He introduced the 1% rule means if you adopt or leave any habit instead of

taking big step you will have to take small steps you have you have to improve your life 1%

every day and after one year you improved your life 37.78% but this is not a child play because
most of the people starts a work and quiet in the middle of that work because they lost their

motivations because they could not see their results as they want. The author also gave the

answer of this problem that how we strict on our improvement and plan? He said that the most of

the people think that their path of journey is very straight but in actually this is not like that this

is a very slow process because according to the JAMES clear habit did not show a visible results

because a resistance type thing is resist you if you brake that threshold or resistance then your

path go straight but before this you face many problems you lose your motivation but if you not

lose hope you will succeed in one day. Most of the people addicted to instant gratification they

want things instant like instant product delivery, content and instant information that why the

patience level of that type of people decreased to zero level and they lost their hope very quickly.

In order to build habits JAMES clear introduced the habit cycle he divided habit cycle in 4

steps:

1. CUE (trigged your brain to take actions)

2. CRAVING ( force mind to do work)

3. RESPONSE (response according to the force of mind)

4. REWARD (results of your response)

The first 2 steps is problem based and the other 2 steps in solution based. He also introduced

the 4 laws of habit

1st law; make it obvious (apply on cue).

2nd law; make it attractive (apply on craving)

3rd law; make is easy (apply on response)

4rth law; make it satisfying (apply on reward)

Like if you want to build a habit of reading book then you must put book on your bed side where

you used to sleep it makes obvious for you and when you go on bed for reading it looks

attractive and easy rather than you go on your table when you read one page every night you

will feel satisfying but on the other hand if you want to remove your bad habit then do opposite

that like; make it invisible make it unattractive make it difficult and make it unsatisfying. He

also said that the not focus on the goal focus on the system or process for example; your are a

cricket player and your goal is to make big score but you only focus on your score board rather

than playing then you will definitely not do a good score but if you focus on your playing not the

score board then you will definitely perform good and may be you will achieve more than your

goal. He also suggest that the shape your identity means live in that way what you want in future

like if you want to become politician then deal people like a politician and believe that you

deserve your goal. This attitude will definitely help you to achieve your goal.

Men are born soft and supple;

Dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
Dead, they are brittle and dry.
Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
Is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
Is a disciple of life.
The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and supple will prevail.

WHAT I LEARNED
THE BEST WORDS IN THIS BOOK:-

(Earth-shattering). (Hallmark).

THE BEST SENTENCES IN THIS BOOK:-

 I used it to plug the stream of blood rushing from my broken nose .

 To write a great book, you must first become the book.

 The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that

goes into riding a bike, and then improve it by 1 percent, you will get a significant increase when

you put them all together.

 Massive success requires massive action.

 Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations). (Habits are a

double-edged sword.

 The outside world only sees the most dramatic event rather than all that preceded it.

 Bill Walsh, “The score takes care of itself”.

 Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.

 True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking.

 Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you

believe.

 Improvements are only temporary until they become part of who you are

 Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become

 Your habits shape your identity, and your identity shapes your habits.

 The primary reason the brain remembers the past is to better predict what will work in the future.

 Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it.

  “is triggered when a shopper sees a product for the first time and Visualizes a need for it.” In

other words, customers will occasionally Products not because they want them but because of

how they are presented to them.

 Environment design allows you to take back control and become the architect of your life.

 You can break a habit, but you’re unlikely to forget it.

 “A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.

 We imitate people we envy.

 “The ritual is not the stretching and weight training I put my body through each morning at the

gym; the ritual is the cab. The moment I tell the driver where to go I have completed the ritual.

 Habits are like the entrance ramp to a highway. They lead you down a path and, before you

know it, you’re speeding toward the next behavior.

 You have to standardize before you can optimize.

 . Ernest Hemingway believed in similar advice for any kind of writing. “The best way is to always

stop when you are going good,” he said.

 As the saying goes, the last mile is Always the least crowded.

 “Don’t break the chain” is a powerful mantra.

 Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a New habit.

 The first seat belt law was passed in New York on December 1, 1984.

 Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state.

 “He who has a why to live For can bear almost any how.”

PARAGRAPHS:-

1. Focusing on the overall system, rather than a single goal, is one of the core

themes of this book. It is also one of the deeper meanings behind the word

atomic. By now, you’ve probably realized that an atomic habit refers to a tiny
 change, a marginal gain, a 1 percent improvement. But atomic habits are not

just any old habits, however small. They are little habits that are part of a

larger system. Just as atoms are the building blocks of molecules, atomic

habits are the building blocks of remarkable results. Habits are like the atoms

of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall

improvement. At first, these tiny routines seem insignificant, but soon they

build on each other and fuel bigger wins that multiply to a degree that far

outweighs the cost of their initial investment. They are both small and

mighty. This is the meaning of the phrase atomic habits—a regular practice

or routine that is not only small and easy to do, but also the source of

incredible power; a component of the system of compound growth.

2. . Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself

requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand

your identity.

3. Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.

No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so

does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful

change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful

difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is

meaningful, it actually is big. That’s the paradox of making small

improvements. Putting this all together, you can see that habits are the path to

changing your identity. The most practical way to change who you are is to

change what you do.

4. . Rewards are the end goal of every habit. The cue is about noticing the

reward. The craving is about wanting the reward. The response is about
 obtaining the reward. We chase rewards because they serve two purposes: (1)

they satisfy us and (2) they teach us.

5. As the writerJason Zweig noted, “Obviously you’re never going to just work

out without Conscious thought. But like a dog salivating at a bell, maybe you

start to get Antsy around the time of day you normally work out.”

6. Pregame jitters. Many people feel anxious before delivering a big

presentation or competing in an important event. They experience quicker

breathing, a faster heart rate, heightened arousal. If we interpret these

feelings negatively, then we feel threatened and tense up. If we interpret

these feelings positively, then we can respond with fluidity and grace. You

can reframe “I am nervous” to “I am excited and I’m getting an adrenaline

rush to help me concentrate.”

7. Every day, there are a handful of moments that deliver an outsized impact. I

refer to these little choices as decisive moments. The moment you decide

between ordering takeout or cooking dinner. The moment you choose

between driving your car or riding your bike. The moment you decide

between starting your homework or grabbing the video game controller.

These choices are a fork in the road.

8. Stories like these are evidence of the Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change:

What Is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided. You learn what

to do in The future based on what you were rewarded for doing (or punished

for doing) in The past. Positive emotions cultivate habits. Negative emotions

destroy them.

9. The French economist Frédéric Bastiat explained the problem clearly

When he wrote, “It almost always happens that when the immediate
 consequence Is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice

versa. . . . Often, the Sweeter the first fruit of a habit, the more bitter are its

later fruits.”

10. This is sometimes referred to as Goodhart’s Law. Named after the

economist Charles Goodhart, the principle states, “When a measure

becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

11. In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of

Opportunity. As physician Gabor Mate notes, “Genes can predispose, but

they Don’t predetermine.” The areas where you are genetically predisposed

to success Are the areas where habits are more likely to be satisfying. The

key is to direct Your effort toward areas that both excite you and match your

natural skills, to Align your ambition with your ability.jamesclear.com

12. What feels like fun to me, but work to others? The mark of whether you are

made for a task is not whether you love it but whether you can handle the

pain of the task easier than most people. When are you enjoying yourself

while other people are complaining? The work that hurts you less than it

hurts others is the work you were made to do. What makes me lose track of

time? Flow is the mental state you enter when you are so focused on the task

at hand that the rest of the world fade away. This blend of happiness and

peak performance is what athletes and performers experience when they are

“in the zone.” It is nearly impossible to experience a flow state and not find

the task satisfying at least to some degree. Where do I get greater returns than

the average person? We are continually comparing ourselves to those around

us, and a behavior is more likely to be satisfying when the comparison is in

our favor. When I started writing at jamesclear.com, my email list grew very
 quickly. I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing well, but I knew that results

seemed to be coming faster for me than for some of my colleagues, which

motivated me to keep writing. What comes naturally to me? For just a

moment, ignore what I’you have been taught. Ignore what society has told

you. Ignore what others expect on you. Look inside yourself and ask, “What

feels natural to me? When have Ifelt alive? When have I felt like the real

me?” No internal judgments or People-pleasing. No second-guessing or self-

criticism. Just feelings of Engagement and enjoyment. Whenever you feel

authentic and genuine, you Are headed in the right direction.

13. Boiling water will soften a potato but harden an egg. You can’t control

Whether you’re a potato or an egg, but you can decide to play a game where

it’s Better to be hard or soft. If you can find a more favorable environment,

you can Transform the situation from one where the odds are against you to

one where They are in your favor.

14. The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when

Working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities. Not too

Hard. Not too easy. Just right

15. For most of my young life, being an athlete was a major part of my identity.

After my baseball career ended, I struggled to find myself. When you spend

your Whole life defining yourself in one way and that disappears, who are

you now? Military veterans and former entrepreneurs report similar feelings.

If your Identity is wrapped up in a belief like “I’m a great soldier,” what

happens when Your period of service ends? For many business owners, their

identity is Something along the lines of “I’m the CEO” or “I’m the founder.”

If you have Spent every waking moment working on your business, how will

you feel after You sell the company? The key to mitigating these losses of
 identity is to redefine yourself such that You get to keep important aspects of

your identity even if your particular role Changes. “I’m an athlete” becomes

“I’m the type of person who is mentally Tough and loves a physical

challenge.” “I’m a great soldier” transforms into “I’m the type of person who

is Disciplined, reliable, and great on a team.” “I’m the CEO” translates to

“I’m the type of person who builds and Creates things.”THERE IS AN

ancient Greek parable known as the Sorites Paradox,* which talks about

16. The effect one small action can have when repeated enough times. One

Formulation of the paradox goes as follows: Can one coin make a person

rich? If You give a person a pile of ten coins, you wouldn’t claim that he or

she is rich. But what if you add another? And another? And another? At

some point, you Will have to admit that no one can be rich unless one coin

can make him or her So. We can say the same about atomic habits. Can one

tiny change transform your Life? It’s unlikely you would say so. But what if

you made another? And Another? And another? At some point, you will have

to admit that your life was Transformed by one small change.

REAL LIFE EXAMPLE

I read almost half of the book like 144 pages author JAMES CLEAR written examples in this is
book almost all the examples he taken from the real life stories or their own experiences when I
found in my own life I also experienced that type of things one of my recently habit which I
made from the help of this book is to WRITE A FULL PAGE OF ENGLISH EVERYDAY.
This is happened like that:

Sir SHEHZAD AHMAD said to our class that you

must write a full page of English everyday no matter how hard it is this make your English better
as well as writing speed this English is like a type of essay anything you wrote on that essay he
said a line “anything under the son”. He also said that this is very difficult only few of you did
this and that is the fact this is really hard so what I did I attached this habit to my previous habit
like I used to go in the orange line train everyday in order to go my university so I decided I
wrote a full page of English whenever I travel in the orange train so whenever I travel in the train
instead of listening songs I do this and believe me that I do this almost every day except (those
days when I don’t go in university). I simply just followed the 4 laws of atomic habit.

1. Make it obvious: I always took my bag so my bag is with me in orange train and
ultimately the register is with me where I wrote an essay is with me.
2. Make it attractive: I assume that when I wrote an essay in the train people think that I
am very like student so this way I make this habit very attractive.
3. Make it easy: as always I travelled in the train and this take me almost 30 minutes to
reached my station so in that period of time I have nothing to do it is easy to just put out
the register from my bag and start writing.
4. Make is satisfying: as my sir said only a few students will do this so when I complete
this essay I feel satisfied that I am consider only a few students that sir said this is very
satisfying for me.

Results:
First dew days I feel difficult and wrote a page almost in 15 minutes now it is easy to do
and I wrote a full page almost in 10 minutes and it is very helpful for me to increase my typing
speed, English and thinking ability.

CONCLUSION
In conclusion, James Clear’s book Atomic Habits shows us that small changes in behavior can
lead to big improvements over time. We can improve our own sustainability by following
Clear’s advice to focus on small improvements, understand behaviors, and focus on systems
rather than goals. This book uses real-life stories and practical advice to show how these ideas
can help us become better models of ourselves. Overall, this is a valuable guide for anyone
looking to make changes in their life through small but consistent actions.