Atomic Habits

The 1% Mindset

If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.

NOTES

• 1% better every day for one year. 1.01365 = 37.78

• 1% worse every day for one year. 0.99365 = 00.03

Compound Interest

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.

Trajectory Focus

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.

Plateau of Latent Potential

If you find yourself struggling to build a good habit or break a bad one, it is not because you have lost your ability to improve. It is often because you have not yet crossed the Plateau of Latent Potential.

Forget about goals, focus on systems instead

• Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.

• Goals are about the results you want to achieve.

Winners and losers have the same goals.

• Identity change

True behavior change is identity change. You might start a habit

because of motivation, but the only reason you’ll stick with one is that

it becomes part of your identity. Anyone can convince themselves to

visit the gym or eat healthy once or twice, but if you don’t shift the

belief behind the behavior, then it is hard to stick with long-term

changes. Improvements are only temporary until they become part of

who you are.

NOTES

• The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader.

• The goal is not to run a marathon, the goal is to become a runner.

• The goal is not to learn an instrument, the goal is to become a musician.

Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity. What you do

is an indication of the type of person you believe that you are—either

consciously or nonconsciously

Identity word origin

The word identity was originally derived from the Latin words essentitas, which means being, and identidem, which means repeatedly. Your identity is literally your “repeated beingness.”

Habits in short

Habits are mental shortcuts learned from experience.