Book Review: Atomic Habits by James Clear

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Book: Atomic Habits 
Author: James Clear
My Rating: 5 of 5 stars


Genre: Nonfiction/Self Help/Personal Development

{ It's so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis }

Atomic Habits by Sir James is truly a brilliant work. I would be honest with you when I first saw its title I wasn’t interested in it as the title seemed boring (Atomic Habits) and at the same time I thought this book contains tips for creating habits which would be boring to know. But as I started it with a prayer ‘Please, please this should be interesting’, it turned out to be a book I wasn’t expecting to be, “A very interesting and remarkable book”. The story of the author, and how he wrote this book, is fascinating. So basically I judged a book by its name hehe :/, but I was completely wrong.

This book is based on the science of how a habit works meaning it helps one to understand basic how one recognizes it, comes across it, goes towards it and how it is done.

For this, you have to first understand these words ‘
cue – The noticing the rewards
craving – The wanting the rewards
response – Obtaining the reward
reward – The reward itself

Now if you understood these terms, further in the book author has described the "4 laws of behaviour change" which will help you to create good habits and eliminate the bad ones.

These laws are in the order of….

For creating a good habit
Cue – Make it obvious
Craving – Make it attractive
Response – Make it easy
Reward – Make it satisfying

The inversion of the above four laws is as follows….

For breaking a bad habit
Cue – Make it invisible
Craving – Make it unattractive
Response – Make it difficult
Reward – Make it unsatisfying

As mentioned earlier, "It's so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis" We come across these kinds of quotes but this book will teach you its importance. Don’t ever undervalue the importance of tiny changes ever because these tiny changes in your behaviour matter the most In one’s personal growth.

Whether or not you are interested in creating a new habit, I think this book is meant for everybody to read it. My suggestion for this book is that don’t buy it for creating habits, I know this book will help you with it, but buy this book for reading as it contains hundreds of fascinating stories of many successful people in their life. It's very easy to understand and grasp the idea, very easy words the author has used in the book.

I don’t have enough words to write most of this book in this short review but I have tried my best and if you have read it till this line, Thank You..... 

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