Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Book Pile
Kellen Erskine and David Vance
4.8 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. If you're like me, you're always thinking about how to develop good habits so that you're better than other people. |
| 0:05.7 | Well, today's book is Atomic Habits by James Clear. |
| 0:10.8 | Atomic Habits teaches lessons for building good habits and losing bad ones. |
| 0:15.0 | But it didn't teach me the habit I thought it would based on the title, Uranium Enrichment. |
| 0:19.2 | And this is the book pile ira robison says this podcast is |
| 0:26.8 | stupid funny dave brings the stupid kellen brings the funny smiley face feel like we did not come out |
| 0:34.9 | equally in that review hey if this is your first time listening to the podcast, welcome. |
| 0:41.2 | This is a comedy podcast about books, and we hope you'll subscribe. |
| 0:45.3 | But if you're still on the fence afterwards, may I personally recommend you at least |
| 0:50.1 | check out what I think are our absolute funniest episodes so far, which are The Seven Habits, |
| 0:56.3 | a biography of Leonardo da Vinci, and of course, our Roses of the Twilight books. |
| 1:02.2 | All right, and without any further ado, here are five favorite lessons from Atomic Habits. |
| 1:08.5 | All right, lesson one, make the good habit easier to do. |
| 1:12.9 | So one of my least favorite phrases right after, I think you're a really great guy, |
| 1:17.7 | is the phrase no pain, no gain. |
| 1:20.2 | Because I feel like it taught millions of us, including me, that something has to be hard |
| 1:25.3 | for it to be beneficial. |
| 1:26.8 | And what he says in the book is, |
| 1:28.4 | if you're trying to gain a good habit, try to make it as easy as possible. So for me, my personal |
| 1:33.9 | example is books. Like, I love reading, but I'm very busy. Audiosbooks make reading so much |
| 1:38.9 | easier. And I've met people who think audiobooks are cheating because reading only counts if it's |
| 1:43.9 | hard. |
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