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Atomic Habits by @JamesClear week-3
Not good at mind maps but will try to use them to understand context.
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1. Sharing the chapter wise outline of the book once again.

2. Chapter-3
How to build better Habits in 4 simple steps.

3 Habit formation is incredibly useful because the conscious mind is the bottleneck of the brain.8 It can only pay attention to one problem at a time. As a result, your brain is always working to preserve your conscious attention for whatever task is most essential.

4 Whenever possible, the conscious mind likes to pawn off tasks to the nonconscious mind to do automatically.9 This is precisely what happens when a habit is formed. Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity.

5 Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it.

6 The four laws of behaviour change
How to create a good habit

7 The four laws of behaviour change
How to break a bad habit

8 The First Law- Make it Obvious

9 We underestimate how much our brains and bodies can do without thinking. You do not tell your hair to grow, your heart to pump, your lungs to breathe, or your stomach to digest. And yet your body handles all this and more on autopilot. You are much more than your conscious self

10 The best way to start a new habit

11 Implementation intention is a plan you make beforehand about when and where to act. That is, how you intend to implement a particular habit.

12 People who make a specific plan for when and where they will perform a new habit are more likely to follow through.7 Too many people try to change their habits without these basic details figured out.

13. Many people think they lack motivation when what they really lack is clarity. It is not always obvious when and where to take action. Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.

14 Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course. We often say yes to little requests because we are not clear enough about what we need to be doing instead.

15 One of the best ways to build a new habit is to identify a current habit you already do each day and then stack your new behavior on top. This is called habit stacking.

16. Strategies like implementation intentions and habit stacking are among the most practical ways to create obvious cues for your habits and design a clear plan for when and where to take action.

17. Motivation is often overrated; Environment often matters more.

18 If you’re overweight, a smoker, or an addict, you’ve been told your entire life that it is because you lack self-control—maybe even that you’re a bad person. The idea that a little bit of discipline would solve all our problems is deeply embedded in our culture.

19 Recent research, however, shows something different. When scientists analyze people who appear to have tremendous self-control, it turns out those individuals aren’t all that different from those who are struggling.

20 Instead, “disciplined” people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control. In other words, they Spend Less Time in TEMPTING SITUATIONS.

21 In the short-run, you can choose to overpower temptation. In the long-run, we become a product of the environment that we live in. To put it bluntly, I have never seen someone consistently stick to positive habits in a negative environment.