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Blah blah blah - not for me

Really great read...at times it would get a little confusing and was like reading the conversation of someone that was a little too excited and rambling about a favorite topic. But I really enjoyed it and felt that it was not overly serious, gave a lot of good advice and didn't seem judgmental at all.

Nothing new

Taking lots of notes so I must be liking it. 😂

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Creo que este libro me ha cambiado un chingo.

One of my favorite books of 2021? Perhaps.

Understand yourself then you will understand your habit.

I might not give up......

I didn’t like it that much #im quitting

Just okay....

I like Gretchen DHS the most part but this one seems insufferable!!!

Amazing. I thought this book has same concepts that we have already read in atomic habits, slight edge or any other blogs, but some exercises are so helpful. And it is useful to know ur tendencies. Grateful for the author for this knowledge.

Starting again

It’s ok. Learning about the different types of people is interesting but I find the author to be kind of repetitive.

okay I WAS ALMOST DONE but then my time of borrowing the book expired. sigh. i'm waiting for my turn to finish it!!

Sometimes when a book becomes available at the library I know I won’t finish reading it in the 4 weeks that I have the book, but I start it anyway to figure out if I should queue for it again or buy it. And I’ve read enough of this book to realize that I’m an Obliger, and I need library return dates to motivate me to finish a book. If I buy it I’ll never finish it! So, queueing! Also, good book!

I jus preoccupied along these pages. Instead of seeing stumbles as the proof of weakness, it's habit-forming phases. A paradox written: a stumble isn't a big deal, and yet it's a big deal. How to's deal with any kind of breaking circumstances are also founded here.

cool

Started off good, and pulled some interesting concepts from it, but the author came off as so unlikeable and annoying.

Great already want to read it once more.

Autant j’aime les 4 personnalités types que l’autrice décrit et les conseils à en tirer, autant ce livre a extrêmement mal vieilli - sa traduction encore plus - beaucoup de sexisme (femmes, faites vous accompagnées pendant le shopping pour moins dépenser), contrôle obsessionnel du poids et conseil santé aberrant ( ex soda light, café )

“If ten coins are not enough to make a man rich, what if you add one coin? What if you add another? Finally, you will have to say that no one can be rich unless one coin can make him so.” Erasmus ,,The Praise of Folly”

In other words, even though one coin certainly isn’t sufficient to make a man rich, a man only becomes rich by adding one coin after another.”

“sum of small actions is very meaningful”

Fake self-actualization loophole: “I want to embrace myself, just as I am. (I try to remember to “Accept myself, and expect more from myself.”)

“For most of us, the real aim isn’t to enjoy a few pleasures right now, but to build habits that will make us happy over the long term.

“We can always mindfully decide to make an exception, but there are no freebies, no going off the grid, no get-out-of-jail-free cards.” Everything we do matters.

Questionable Assumption Loophole: “I can’t start working until my office is clean”
“We might need this one day”

False choice loophole: “I have to make an either/or decision, when in fact, the two aren’t necessarily in conflict”
e.g. “If I go to sleep earlier, I won’t have any time to myself.”

Arranging to fail loophole: seemingly harmless decisions that later become irresistable
“I’ll just check my email quickly before I go to the meeting, and then make this one call … oh no, it’s so late”

“It’s human nature: we seek loopholes”

Moral licensing loophole - “we argue that we’re entitled to be “bad” now because we plan to be “good” in the future” or we’ve been good enough.
Tommorow loophole - “Now doesn’t matter, because we’re going to follow good habit tommorow”

“We argue that circumstances force us to break a habit, but often, we have more control than we admit”

“People who feel listless and dull watch TV to make themselves feel better, then they feel listless and dull because they’ve been watching hours of TV”

“Make sure the things we do to make ourselves feel better don’t make us feel worse.”

“When we do stumble, it’s important not to judge ourselves harshly”

“People who feel less guilt and who show compassion toward themselves in the face of failure are better able to regain self-control”

“Instead of viewing our stumbles as evidence that we’re weak or undisciplined or lazy, we can see our stumbles as part of the habit-formation process”

“Make it easy to do right, and hard to go wrong.”

Family should go above the habits. Jamie is the husband. ,,I don’t want habit to deaden me to Jamie’s presence. I don’t want to take him for granted, to listen to him with only half my attention, to look at him without seeing him. I want my habits to help free me to pay more attention to him, and to everything else that’s important to me”