Atomic Habits

How can we get rid of our bad habits and adopt new ones, more in sync with the objectives we are aiming for? Everyone knows there is no simple answer to this universal question. James Clear, author and speaker specializing on this topic, shares here the fruits of years of research and experience, in a book that aims at being foremost pragmatic.

The observation is clear and precise: few are the people who succeed in changing habits through sheer strong will. Would we be lacking in determination and perseverance? The reality is more complex. Very often, it seems, we sin through an excess of voluntarism. Indeed, changing habits requires an important effort, and we exhaust ourselves by aiming too high. This is how our vigilance weakens and we revert to our old habits, long anchored.

James Clear proposes a simple scheme and numerous tips to facilitate setting up new habits. The key to success? Seeking foremost to minimize the required effort: by progressing regularly with small steps, we achieve spectacular changes. You will thus discover how to make the habit you are trying to develop more obvious, more attractive, simpler to implement, more gratifying. For example, by linking an activity you are struggling to complete to an activity that you like; or else, by fitting out the space to facilitate the new habit, like placing a bowl of fruit on the table to think of eating some.

A wealth of ideas that make you feel like immediately starting.