Atomic Habits Book Review

Your goals aren’t good enough to change you. Here’s what you need instead.

Steven Ma
4 min readJul 5, 2023
Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

You’ve probably heard of the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. It’s incredibly popular for those interested in business, entrepreneurship, or personal development. Instead of summarizing the book, I’m going to provide 5 few key points that stood out to me the most. If you resonate with these themes, then the book is definitely worth a read.

1. Our Habits Are Important

“The quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits.”

When it comes to creating life change, we often focus on goals and motivation. We set small goals and big goals as targets to hit. Then we try to find something that inspires us to change. This rarely works. No matter how clear a goal is or how motivated we are, nothing happens if we don’t take daily, sustained action.

Our lives are the sum of our habits. Every action that we do, especially those that are repeated daily and done on autopilot, make up the bulk of our lives. If anything is going to change in our lives, it starts with our habits.

2. Small Changes Matter

“It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the…

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