Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
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Atomic Habits by James Clear-1
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* This can derail our decision making as well. The brain overestimates the danger of anything that seems like an immediate threat but has almost no likelihood of actually occurring: your plane crashing during a bit of turbulence, a burglar breaking in while you’re home alone, a terrorist blowing up the bus you’re on. Meanwhile, it underestimates what appears to be a distant threat but is actually very likely: the steady accumulation of fat from eating unhealthy food, the gradual decay of your muscles from sitting at a desk, the slow creep of clutter when you fail to tidy up. * Interested readers can find a habit tracker template at atomichabits.com/tracker . * You can see the actual Habit Contracts used by Bryan Harris and get a blank template at atomichabits.com/contract . * If you are interested in taking a personality test, you can find links to the most reliable tests here: atomichabits.com/personality . * I have a pet theory about what happens when we achieve a flow state. This isn’t confirmed. It’s just my guess. Psychologists commonly refer to the brain as operating in two modes: System 1 and System 2. System 1 is fast and instinctual. Generally speaking, processes you can perform very quickly (like habits) are governed by System 1. Meanwhile, System 2 controls thinking processes that are more effortful and slow—like calculating the answer to a difficult math problem. With regard to flow, I like to imagine System 1 and System 2 as residing on opposite ends of the spectrum of thinking. The more automatic a cognitive process is, the more it slides toward the System 1 side of the spectrum. The more effortful a task is, the more it slides toward System 2. Flow, I believe, resides on the razor’s edge between System 1 and System 2. You are fully using all of your automatic and implicit knowledge related to the task while also working hard to rise to a challenge beyond your ability. Both brain modes are fully engaged. The conscious and nonconscious are working perfectly in sync. * The discovery of variable rewards happened by accident. One day in the lab, the famous Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner was running low on food pellets during one experiment and making more was a time-consuming process because he had to manually press the pellets in a machine. This situation led him to “ask myself why every press of the lever had to be reinforced.” He decided to only give treats to the rats intermittently and, to his surprise, varying the delivery of food did not decrease behavior, but actually increased it. * I created a template for readers interested in keeping a decision journal. It is included as part of the habit journal at atomichabits.com/journal . * You can see my previous Annual Reviews at jamesclear.com/annual-review . * You can see my previous Integrity Reports at jamesclear.com/integrity . * Sorites is derived from the Greek word sorós, which means heap or pile. Download 5.87 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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