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Chapter 4: Changing Bad habits and creating a habit scorecard

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 Chapter 4: The Man Who Didn't Look Right  So, here we are diving into the fourth chapter of the book.  This chapter brings you all about the steps to be taken to build a habit. It talks about how habits work, and how your experiences are majorly responsible for your habits, which are basically involuntary actions resulting from repeated performance of those actions. You all might have seen people diagnosing a certain disease without actual check-ups just having a look at your face. How is that even possible, some might wonder, but all of us know the answer: when we have been constantly doing things, we get such experts in the job that we can easily predict things without actually realizing that we predicted the right thing.  Why?  The human brain is a prediction machine.   Whenever you experience something repeatedly, your brain begins noticing what is important, sorting through the details from the information surrounding, highlighting the relevant cues, ...
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Chapter 3: How to Build Better Habits. Atomic Habits

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Chapter 3: How to build better habits?  Welcome back to the Third Chapter of Atomic Habits.  So, let's keep the dream rolling and dive into How to build better habits.  WHY YOUR BRAIN BUILDS HABITS:  A habit is a behavior that has been repeated enough times to become automatic, and the process of habit-building begins with Trial and Error.  The first time you come across a problem, you face yourself asking: Hold On! How do I respond to this?  Neurological activity in the brain is high during this period, as you are carefully analyzing the situation and trying to find a way with this.  Occasionally, you hit on a lever, and Voila! that is the solution. You are exploring, exploring, and — BAM— a reward. That is the next step.  Entering Feedback Loop:  After you stumble upon something unexpected reward, your brain begins to rewire everything you had done past the reward.  Feedback loop : try, fail, learn, try differently.  With enough p...
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Atomic Habits Chapter 2 quick recap

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There there there.. It took me ages to decide to write the second chapter.  I had my exams last month and I performed very bad, but one thing that kept revolving in my mind was: I don't even know what went wrong dude. I can't figure it out.  Now I know what was wrong, after a month of fiddling myself, I know what the problem was. Lol, it was never me but my Sleep.  I slept through the night accidentally and studied nothing.  This was my problem and it repeated itself every day. Sadly it has gotten better these days but I still fall asleep and am unable to catch up with my schoolwork. Lemme know if anyone knows the solution.  But right now, let's get deeper into Chapter 2:  How Your Habits Shape Your Identity (and Vice-Versa).  Why is it so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones? We'll have a moment to think... It often feels difficult to keep good habits going for more than a few days, even with sincere effort and the occasional burst ...
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Chapter 1: Atomic Habits

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 Atomic Habits  The Plateau of Latent Potential, System and Goal  We talked about chapter 1 and everything it has to do with the 1% improvements. Now we are talking about the System of Habits and the process that takes us to our goals.  1. The Plateau of Latent Potential:  Sometimes we often expect progress to come at us linearly, but life is full of surprises and sometimes our hopes are never met in reality: they are often delayed. We see that the work we put in, doesn't give the kind of result we want, and this is when we meet the valley of disappointment. We feel discouraged, and we stop. But what James says and what I believe too is, we shouldn't. Yeah, if you're really committed, don't stop. When you think that your efforts are not giving in, they're actually being stored and waiting for the right moment.  Okay, okay that says so much. Here's another:  If you have an exam, and before that , your teacher carries numerous mini-tests. Suppose you stu...
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Chapter 1: Atomic Habits

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  Atomic Habits  What Chapter 1 of Atomic Habits says? Values and explanation.  Everyone is aware of James Clear's book Atomic Habits. While the book goes through a turning point in the author's life, he has well explained the changes he made in the past or what observations he made that brought him to such a peak, where people get a handful of inspiration to incorporate it into their lives.  I haven't read the complete book yet, hence I haven't developed a perspective toward it. However, I would like to share the key points from the chapters as I read them.  Here are some of the values I felt the need to think about repeatedly to make myself feel like a princess from my heart.  1. The aggregation of marginal gains:  Searching for a tiny margin on improvement in everything you do. That means all these small improvements ultimately lead to big results.  2. 1% Improvement:  Okay, hear me out, 1%? You would 1% doesn't even make a difference. Wel...
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