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Atomic Habits

Disciplines:
psychology
productivity
habits
self-help/self-improvement

Summary

James Clear's 2018 system for building good habits and breaking bad ones — based on four laws (make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying) — the best-selling habits book and one of the best-selling self-help books of all time (15M+ copies).

Core Contribution

Creates the most actionable habit system framework — Atomic Habits synthesizes habit research into four laws that are specific enough to implement immediately; its 1% improvement aggregation argument (small daily improvements compound to remarkable results) is the most widely quoted personal improvement philosophy.

Historical Influences

Charles Duhigg BJ Fogg B.F. Skinner

Intellectual Lineage

James Clear Avery

Allied Works

The Power of Habit Tiny HabitsThe Willpower Instinct

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Habits self-help genre

Intellectual Posterity

Atomic Habits Four Laws of Behavior Change Identity-based habits

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