Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, listeners will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:

Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy)
Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower
Design your environment to make success easier
Get back on track when you fall off course
And much more

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits - whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

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5 hours and 35 minutes
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James Clear
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James Clear
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Oct. 16 2018
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Listening Length	5 hours and 35 minutes
Author	James Clear
Narrator	James Clear
Audible.ca Release Date	October 16 2018
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07GBKBL1B
Best Sellers Rank	#3 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1 in Personal Success #1 in Workplace & Organizational Behaviour #1 in Business Processes & Infrastructure

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Cindy Palajac

Great steps to new habits!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 30, 2022

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Liked the easy step by step way to create good habits.

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Annie Dinh

Simplified practical application!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 15, 2022

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I listened to its audiobook twice. Now I am reading it! I like the practical part of how we can apply the habits simply in our daily life. The only part that I feel that I disagree with the author is the one at the end when he talks about genes and the inability of changing them. If you read "you are the placebo" & "breaking the habits of being yourself" by Dr. Joe Dispenza, you will understand how human being can powerfully change their genes and eventually their lives just by thoughts alone. Overall, it's a very good and easy-to-read book.

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Stéphanie Munger

Love it

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 23, 2022

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Very nice read.

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Linda W.

filled with the best science on personal growth and success

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 7, 2021

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International Bestseller, Atomic Habits: an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones by James Clear is filled with the best science on personal growth and success. Also on the cover, it says, “Tiny changes, remarkable results.”

Mr. Clear’s premise is that only making a 1 percent improvement each day compounds to make remarkable results over time.

In each chapter, Clear cites scientific research that points out these principles and how to break one’s goals down into micro-goals and tasks that are manageable into 2-minute time frames and stacked with one’s current habits in order to cement the new practice with something that’s already done habitually subconsciously.

Overall, I found this book very helpful in how to take baby steps to transform my life – in any and all areas of my life. I consider it a ‘keeper,’ that I will refer to over and over as I implement these suggestions.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who’s a student of personal growth or business success.

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Mr. Bonk

Good content, garbage object

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 6, 2022

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I think it’s a great book but recently picked it up to reread and was reminded how terribly made the physical copy is. The paper is cheap, the cover has come unglued off the spine. Gives the whole product a bad vibe. Wish i had returned it at the time.

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Marshall Willis

Turned my Life Around

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 29, 2021

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Are you self-motivated but have trouble finishing what you start? So did I, until I read Atomic Habits. The surprisingly simple techniques this book will teach you will make you feel like you can do anything. I was procrastinating about everything, now everything I want in life is cultivating one habit at a time. I made my whole family read this book after I was done with it. It is seriously a game changer. I recommend it to anyone who has dreams or goals but not the consistency and drive to achieve them.

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GnU

Fantastic book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 30, 2021

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James Clear, clearly lists out several ways to improve ourselves with ease everyday by only doing 1%. I implore you read this and not find something that will benefit you. Good luck with that!

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La Rousse

Changed My Life

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 5, 2021

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I can't say enough good things about this book and how it's helped me get more done, and have a healthier life. The logic of his steps just make sense. Keep at it and the next thing you know, you're finally feeling productive and overall there is improvement on many levels. My only worry, and the reason I gave it 3 stars is because of the beginning of the book where the author goes on and on about his accomplishments. It smacked of incredible insecurity and unwarranted over the top bravado. I wish he'd had the confidence to just introduce his beliefs and system and allow the process to speak for itself, otherwise I think some people will just stop before they even get to what matters in the book. I'd say ignore the first 1/4, and read the really good ideas that, if you stick to them, even haphazardly in the beginning, eventually before you know it, it all falls into place. You'll be glad you read this book and followed what this man passionately believes in. Good luck :-).

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Abhishek Rakhecha

4 Lesions I learnt from this Book

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on February 4, 2022

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1. Don't set Goals : Writer kehte he ki goal set karne ki bajay ek system pe focus karna chaiye
Goals set krna achi bat he lekin us goal ko achieve karne k liye system ko behtar banana padega jo hame us goal tak pahuchayega.
Agar British Cycling team ki bat kare to gold medal jeetna to unka goal shuru re raha tha, lekin Dave ne jab system ko better banaya, to goal apne ap achieve ho gaya.
Maan lijiye apka room bikhra pada he. Ap ek goal set krte ho ki mujhe room clean karna hee to ek bar room clean ho jayega, lekin agar ap apni chijo ko sahi jagah rkhne ki adat bana lo to apka kamra kabhi bikhra milegha hi nai.

2 – Change your Identity :
Apni buri adato ko change krne ke liye hame adto ko chang karne s pehle apne aap ko change karna ki jrurt hoti he .
Hamari adte hamari identity ko follow krti he .
Example k liye –
Man lijiye ek insan cigarette chodne ki koshish krta he . Is douran jab use koi cigarette offer karta he to vo ye kahta he “ nahi yar, me cigg chodne ki kosis kar raha hu’
Usnea bhi tak apni identity nahi badli. Vo apne ap ko abhi bhi smoker manta he.
Lekin, agar vo ye kahe ki “ nahi yar, me cigg nahi pita” is se vo apni identity change kar leta he. Ab vo apne ap ko non smokere consider karta he . This new identity motivates that person to stick with it.

3 – Change your Environment -
Hamare sath akshar esa hota h ki ham kitchen me jate to paani pine k liye, lekin hamari nazar chips k packet pe padti he or ham use khane lagte he .
Hairani ki baat ye he ki hame na to bhookh lagi thi or na hi chips khane ki ichha hui thi.
Malls vale yahi technique use krte he, mehange or profitable products racks me upar or ankho ki range me rakhi jate he jo customer ko easily notice ho jate he .
And chances are that customers in products ko jrurt na hote hue bhi kharid lete he.
Isi technique se ham bhi kisi bhi habit ko abopt kar skte he ya kisi bad habit ko chord bhi skte he.
Fruits jyada khanee h ? to fruit basket ko vaha rkho jaha ap apna din ka sabs jyada time spnd krte ho. Jab fruits apki ankho k samne rahnge to ap automatically unhe consume krne lag jaoge.
Padhai krt krte distract hote h to padhai k liy alag room, ya room me alag table ko study zone bana do. Yani padhai bed pe nhi usi enviorment m kroge, to apka mind kam distract hoga qki usko pata h k aap study zone m ho.

4. Don’t run for the best: Ek choti si interesting si story share krta hu. Florida University ke ek professor ne apne photography students ko 2 groups me divide kiya. Pehle group ko yeh challenge diya ki unko pure semester jyada se jyada photos submit karne he , 100 photos submit krne vale ko A grade, 90 vale ko B.
Or dusre group ko challenge diya to submit only 1 photo but that has to be the perfect one. Jiska photo sabse perfect hoga usko A grade, or us se kam vale ko B grade milega.

Interesting.
At the end of the semester saare best photos surprisingly first group se aye.
Aap bhi soch rahe honge k esa kese hua, dusra group jisne pura semester ek photo ko perfect krne me lagaya unke photos best rank me q nahi aye ?

Because jaha dusra group ek hi photo ko perfect banana me laga raha, pehle group ne jab bahot sare photos click kiye to isi ke sath unki skills bhi enhance hoti rahi. Vo har photo me experiment karte rahe or apni hi mistakes se sikhte rahe.

Agar apko business krna he ya startup krna he or best idea ya best opportunity k liye ruke he to ap kabhi start hi nahi kar paynege,
Jo bhi idea he jesi bhi opportunity he uspe jab mehnat ki jayegi to vo hi best ban jayega.

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Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 4, 2021

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A marketing masterpiece.

With all due respect to author's team exceptional ability to better market & monetize original authors' ideas, my two cents is that this is, at its best, a two-page worth of original content which is bulked into an unnecessarily verbose & repetitive three-hundred-something pages book that was mostly a waste of time.

The literature not only targets the average Joe out there, but also repeats itself constantly. Constantly. Constantly. Constantly. Constantly. Constantly. Constantly. Constantly. Constantly. Constantly. And I mean, cons-tant-ly! (I wish this review becomes as successful!)

So, to give you the tldr you'd need and save you the trouble:

The author reads the Duhig's "power of habit" and Eyal's "hooked" books and starts summerizing "his framework" upon those original ideas. As he mentions himself:

"Charles Duhigg and Nir Eyal deserve special recognition for their influence on this image. This representation of the habit loop is a combination of language that was popularized by Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit, and a design that was popularized by Eyal’s book, Hooked."

Here's the original content and the framework he proposes:

For good habits:
- Make it obvious (cue)
- Make it attractive (craving)
- Make it easy (response)
- Make it satisfying (reward)

Do the opposite for the bad ones. And he calls it "The Four Laws of Behavior Change". And the rest is considerable loads of examples and repeatitions. Yup. Millions of sales. Magic.

Yup, it's totally fine to expand & build upon others' ideas. It's how human knowledge grows. But come on, it's just 4 sentences. Ok, add one paragraph explanation per each, one example per each and then one page conclusion and that'd be a nice blog post I'd enjoy.

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P.S. Duhig has also introduced a framework himself:

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Tushar Joshi

Atomic Habits by James Clear is highly recommended read

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on October 27, 2018

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I was aware of many concepts of this book through the web site of the author jamesclear.com In fact that the place from where I came to know James first time. The article on habits where he mentions process is important than goals was my starting point. I continued reading his updates through the consistent newsletter he publishes through his site.

Once the book was announced and available it was a no brainer for me to purchase my own copy to have all the concepts in one place and to go through the ideas in succession.

This book provides supplementary material like cheat sheet and templates which are very useful for planning your own habit profile and continuous improvement.

This book is action oriented. The concepts present an action plan for trying them in your own situation and to practice the ideas directly in day to day life. This makes the book an instruction manual for nurturing good habits and killing bad habits. I was able to immediately relate to many new habits to start and many not so good habits I can stop and avoid using the identification pattern provided in the book.

The principle presented in the book about understanding who to become, that is finding out what identity to achieve instead of just starting or stopping a habit is very helpful.

One important aspect of this book is the to the point summary provided after every chapter. Once you have read the book this summary helps recall all the concepts in short time and becomes a concise model to revise the concepts.

The book is engaging and is suitable for reading cover to cover as it provides many stories and references. As the concept of process than goals was already known to me through the Learning How to Learn MOOC at Coursera, I was glad to find the same concept mentioned in this book and was able to relate quickly with the principles.

The book also becomes a workbook and reference material once you have gone through it. The chapters are divided into sections which can be referred for particular situation in hand.

I will recommend this book for anyone who is eager to understand why habits are formed and how to nurture good habits and avoid bad ones.

847 people found this helpful

Pravin Poojary.

Beware!! This Book can change your Life :)

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on November 16, 2018

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And I absolutely mean it what I said in Headline of my comment. I have been following jamesclear.com from very long.
His one article has absolutely changed my life, imagine what this book can offer to you.

I have been chasing to build many habits and experimenting with them a lot but I would always find a bit difficult to stay with my changed behavior and then while browsing on internet studying more on habits formation I stumbled on James's articles and boy this guy has the answer for habit formation.

If you are looking to form a new habit you have to read this Book.

I have never commented online on any of the books that I have read but this one deserves a lot of appreciation.

This one is for you James, in future if you ever read this comment I want to tell you that your work has hugely impacted my life. And I express my huge gratitude towards your work on Atomic Habits and the articles you post. Thank a lot for this :)

644 people found this helpful

Matt Evans

You know everything already.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 18, 2019

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I bought this book as I listened to an interview with James Clear on a podcast and found him interesting. His book, however was disappointing. It follows the typical self-help formula of common sense and old ideas combined with overly simplistic charts and celebrity anecdotes to remind you of what you already know.

That said, sometimes you do need the reminder. And I did pick up a few useful tips. So it’s worth the read. But don’t expect anything special.

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