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Choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be.Going to the gym doesn't immediately give you more muscle definition etc. eating a chocolate bar doesn't change the scale immediately. We often dismiss small changes because they don’t seem to matter very much in the moment.Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.Get 1 percent better each day for one year, and you’ll end up thirty-seven times better (compounding effect).Massive success is rarely the result of a single massive action. It's easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.

This is what the British cycling team did to become world champions.

The aggregation of marginal gains: searching for a tiny margin of improvement in everything you do.

Summarised notes Chapter 1: The surprising power of atomic habits

Reward - satisfaction of your feelings and feedback on what to do if the situation repeats itself in the future.

Response - your actions to get the reward.

Craving - the motivation to get the reward.

Cue - the trigger that signifies a potential reward.

Turning it around, to break bad habits, we should make them hidden, non-attractive, difficult and unsatisfying. Therefore, to create new good habits, we need to make them: obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying (the 4 laws of behavior change).Habits have a 4-step pattern: cue, craving, response, reward.Pair this book with the downloadable materials from the. It's also written in a way that gives you clear takeaway points and tries to encourage you to actually take action, which again is refreshing. It is a short read, and goes to the point which I really liked. I was dubious about how much new material there could be on habits but having now read this, I'd definitely say that this is THE book to read for anyone wanting to create new habits or break bad ones.