Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits by James Clear is the best book on habit building that I've read. The book gives simple, concrete, and effective advice on how to build and sustain good habits over a long time.

The book focuses on the 4 laws of behavior change - make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, and make it satisfying. In each chapter we learn actionable advice on each of these fundamental laws and how we can integrate habits in our daily life.

If we want to get better at something, we should focus on incremental progress. Small improvements, sustained over a period of time, can result in extraordinary results. If you improve by 1% every day, you will get 37 times better in a year. Great habits don't add up, they compound.

Building good habits is not just about achieving our goals. It's about becoming the type of a person we want to be. Don't just write every day, become a writer. Don't just work out, become an athlete. When doing something is in our identity, continuing a habit is easy.

Just like atoms are building blocks of molecules, good habits are building blocks of a person we want to become. If you implement even 50% of the advice in the book, you can make significant change in your life and your habits.