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As part of Network School's curriculum, I re-read Atomic Habits, which is intended to be a stepping stone for the ambitious 2 books / week pace for the year.
After initially reading it in 2021, I was impressed by 2 aspects:
1. How much my new experiences further validated the content of this week and previous knowledge on habits forming (~2010-2015).
Whenever I optimized the environment to make the habit easy to repeat every day, obvious, appealing (e.g. writing 500 words a day, taking stairs instead of elevators), change was sustainable and long lasting. Whenever the habit was a "3 times / wk" frequency or required willpower to sustain, results were limited.
The point in this book I don't fully agree with is the importance of goals: I've found myself in some autopilot loops (running, writing...) where through the repetition of the habit, I end up with a bunch of words, but no consistent story, or a great mileage / wk number consisting of 10-20km runs, but weakness when crossing km30 of a marathon.
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