Atomic Habits by James Clear
As my homeschool project, I started reading Atomic Habits by James Clear, currently I’m on chapter three (how is it so hard to read one chapter for school but I can read 15 chapters of Lynn Painter?) and this chapter we (me and my fake YouTube subscribers) talked about how a habit is created by doing something over and over again. Example: waking up and immediately starting another romance book. If you do that every day (like me) then it will start to become a habit! (👍) There are also bad habits such as not rereading Better Than The Movie every month or liking C0lleen Hoov3r.
The “Four Laws” of habits are 1. Make it obvious 2. Make it attractive (Jameson Hawthorne) 3. Make it easy and 4. Make it satisfying (Cue the Bazzi) In conclusion: cherish the good habits, ditch the bad ones, and don’t forget to romanticize your life.
Xo, Ruby Wren
Atomic Habits by James Clear (pt.2)
This chapter, Clear talked about how our habits become automatic. Basically, we stop paying attention to what we are doing one we form a habit of doing something, if that makes sense. **SPOILER** EXAMPLE: if you made tea and cried over Adena’s death every day at exactly 3:00 pm, it would become a routine as you stared into the void for an hour. You would do it every day and not think twice about not doing it therefore we don’t pay attention to anything else except her death. (notice how I said we) The other topic he talked about is how you have to be aware of your habit before changing it. If you randomly cry throughout the day about Adena, it’s not a habit you’re aware about because you don’t do it at a certain time and you don’t pay attention to when you do it. Yet, if you choose 3:00 pm, then you are aware of your habit and how you always do it then.
stay romantic ❤
xoxo, Ruby Wren.
Atomic Habits by James Clear (pt.3)
In this chapter we talked about habit stacking. that’s it. Basically, habit stacking is literally stacking your habits. EXACTLY like reading 3 books at a time (JAIL.) For habit stacking, you need to follow the rule of: I WILL (BEHAVIOR) AT (TIME) IN (LOCATION). Ex: I will read ‘Watch Me’ at 12:00 am in my bed. Plus STACKING: After reading ‘Watch Me’, I will obsess over Nassie at 3:00 am in my room. That’s pretty much it for this chapter and it was very deep and confusing (like Hawthorne House) so that was it summed up, YOUR WELCOME!
xoxo, Ruby Wren.
Atomic Habits by James Clear (pt 4)
in this totally amazing chapter we talk about how one of the most practical ways to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce the exposure that causes it. Basically dummies 101: if you cry over A Thousand Boy Kisses then lock the book in a safe 28373837 miles away. Also once a habit is formed it’s unlikely to be forgotten.. once you start reading shatter me you physically CANNOT stop. That’s literally it. Goodbye.
xoxo, ruby wren (too lazy to capitalize)
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