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How can you change your life? In Atomic Habits, James Clear argues that the key lies in your habits: the automatic behaviors that make up more than half of what you do every day. Clear contends that implementing the right habits will drastically improve your life—but to do so, you must understand how habits work and how to change yours.

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In this guide, you’ll discover why habits matter and the three mindsets you can use to create them. You’ll then learn how habits form and the four keys to changing yours. Finally, you’ll learn how to continue improving habits you've implemented. Along the way, we’ll examine how other psychologists and experts approach habit formation, and we’ll explore how Clear’s theories either align with or differ from theirs.

As Clear notes, his habit formation stages expand upon productivity expert Charles Duhigg’s habit model from The Power of Habit—but Clear doesn’t specify how his approach differs. Clear presents a four-stage model of habit formation, but Duhigg’s model has only three stages: First, there’s the cue, or the trigger that tells your brain which habit to use. Second, there’s the routine, in which you act out the habit, and third, there’s the reward, which is the result of the routine and reinforces the habit. Duhigg’s model doesn’t include Clear’s cravings stage—although Duhigg does discuss how cravings drive behavior.

I’m a total sucker for the systems over goals mindset because, I’m basically just one big system myself! I also love the shift toward identity. It’s much cooler to focus on who you’re becoming rather than just staring at a finish line|