James Clear’s Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones is a guide to adopting good behaviors through incremental changes to your everyday routines.
In Atomic Habits, Clear suggests that bad habits are the result of unconscious cues triggering unproductive behavior. Drawing from neuroscience, sociology, psychology, sports, and the arts, Clear outlines strategies for reinforcing habits that enable you to reach your full potential. Success is not a singular goal, but a process of gradually improving and refining your craft. Establishing good systems is the best way to succeed.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
In accomplishing the components of this exercise, participants will:
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Short Answer
1. What is a habit? What aspects of the brain are involved in habit formation?
2. List some of the common advice you’ve received about creating and building better habits. What do you already know about how to stick to good habits? What practices have not worked?
Personal Connection Prompt
How would you describe yourself and your identity? What do your regular habits reveal about who you are? Are your habits a true reflection of your identity? Why or why not?
Short Activity
Do a self-assessment of your habits. Make a list of your habits or routines—the things you do every day. Organize your list by time of day or by type of task.
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Reading Check
1. What life event shaped the author’s life experience with habits?
2. According to Clear, what are the three different types of change?
3. What are the four stages of a habit?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. How did the British cycling team manage to make such large gains in a short amount of time?
2. How do habits become unconscious?
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Reading Check
1. What is the purpose of the Japanese railway conductor’s habit of pointing and calling?
2. What is the format of an implementation intention?
3. What is habit stacking?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. How does Clear suggest readers apply pointing and calling to their own habits?
2. Describe the Diderot Effect.
3. Why does Clear say that every habit should “have a home.” (Chapter 6)
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Reading Check
1. What is temptation bundling?
2. According to Clear, which spheres of influence in our society impact habit formation?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Give one example of a mindset shift that Clear describes to support habit-forming.
2. What role does socialization play in habit formation?
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Reading Check
1. What were the results of the photography class experiment?
2. What is the Law of Least Effort?
3. What is the Two-Minute Rule?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. How does Clear distinguish between motion and action?
2. What are some ways that Clear suggests we reduce obstacles to fitness habits?
3. Why does Clear insist on the Two-Minute Rule in forming new habits?
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Reading Check
1. Why does the human brain crave instant gratification?
2. What are the benefits of habit tracking?
3. What is the “Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change?”
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What role can accountability partners play in habit formation?
2. What does “never miss twice” mean?
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Reading Check
1. What is the Goldilocks rule?
2. What happened after the Lakers implemented the Career Best Effort Program?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What role can genetics play in habit formation?
2. What lesson does Clear illustrate in telling the story of the 1986 Los Angeles Lakers?
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