{"id":900,"date":"2022-04-06T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=900"},"modified":"2022-04-06T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T23:00:29","slug":"atomic-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/atomic-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finished this <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesclear.com\/atomic-habits\">ebook<\/a> last week. It has been interesting to read about some techniques that I have used without really noticing like adding\/removing things from my visual radar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that the key is to create your <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.co.uk\/Mindset-Updated-Changing-Fulfil-Potential\/dp\/147213995X\">mindset<\/a> and grow little by little (atomic). This in an investment in the long run, on you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big picture for building habits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Obvious, Attractive, Easy and Satisfying:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The big picture for removing habits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Invisible, Unattractive, Hard and Unsatisfying.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And this book makes references to &#8220;Man&#8217;s search for meaning&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some other notes from the summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Happiness is simple the absence of desire (The richest is not the one who has more things but the one with less needs &#8211; my grandmother told me that once)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Being curious is better than being smart.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Emotions drives behaviour. Your response tends to follow your emotions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Suffering drives progress.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Satisfaction = Craving &#8211; Reward<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Feelings come both before and after behaviour: Cue -> Craving (feeling) -> Response -> Reward (feeling)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished this ebook last week. It has been interesting to read about some techniques that I have used without really noticing like adding\/removing things from my visual radar. I believe that the key is to create your mindset and grow little by little (atomic). This in an investment in the long run, on you. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/atomic-habits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Atomic Habits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}