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Atomic Habits

book · in 14 sources (2018–2020)

Sources by year: 2018: 2 · 2019: 5 · 2020: 7

Threads

Also named in the threads: Book Club, Ali's series of book-summary videos (2020)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

James Clear (15) · Book Club (4) · friction (3) · Kindle (6) · Derren Brown (2) · Gymshark (2) · stoicism (2) · Tim Ferriss (2) · Notion (3) · iPad Pro (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-05-10 · Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results - Atomic Habits by James Clear — announcement: Ali: This video is the second episode of Book Club, Ali's new series summarising the key ideas of his favourite books, on Atomic Habits by James Clear. — 00:00:29
    • James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits James Clear argues that getting 1% better each day for a year makes you 37 times better, while getting 1% worse each day takes you nearly to zero. — 00:01:27
    • James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits James Clear calls habits the compound interest of self-improvement: they make little difference on a given day, but an enormous one over months or years. — 00:01:27
    • Ali used to approach eating and exercise by outcomes, such as losing belly fat with Tim Ferriss's slow-carb diet; since Atomic Habits he thinks "I am a healthy person" and acts accordingly. — 00:05:50
  • 2020-05-26 · Studying, Cooking and Netflix · Day in the Life During Lockdown — Ali edits the script of a Book Club episode on James Clear's Atomic Habits, adding personal examples and casual touches so it seems less scripted. — 00:02:50
    • Ali finishes the Atomic Habits script on his iPad Pro, with Notion and Kindle in split screen to pull quotes from the book. — 00:04:18
  • 2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits James Clear says that environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behaviour. — 00:00:00
    • After reading Atomic Habits and Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep, Ali began putting his phone across the room out of reach, and started sleeping better without phone time and blue light before bed. — 00:01:56
    • His guitar used to stand across the living room, which Ali found too much friction; after rereading Atomic Habits for his Book Club video, he keeps it leaning on the sofa. — 00:02:55
    • Ali says that once we take in that friction is the most powerful force in the universe we can use it to build good habits and break bad ones, which is what James Clear's Atomic Habits is about. — 00:04:23
  • 2020-07-01 · Why Motivation is a Myth — Ali: Since reading The Motivation Myth and Atomic Habits, Ali thinks of goals this way: set a goal, then completely forget about it and focus on the process. — 00:05:31
  • 2020-12-31 · I WAS WRONG - How I Set Goals — James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits, James Clear says that if you want better results, you should forget about setting goals and focus on your system instead. — 00:00:58
  • …and 3 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

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2019

  • 2019-01-20 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps — recommendation: Ali keeps the Kindle app on his iPad to flick through books and his highlights and notes, such as his many Atomic Habits highlights, when he needs inspiration for an email or a blog post. — 00:05:36
  • 2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — recommendation: Ali calls Atomic Habits by James Clear a really good book: it is his second most highlighted book, after Happy by Derren Brown. — 00:10:17
  • 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Happy is by far Ali's most highlighted book on his Kindle, with Atomic Habits second, he thinks; he first read it in 2016 when it came out and gains new insights about happiness every time he rereads it. (hedged) — 00:02:15
    • Ali will talk about James Clear's Atomic Habits in another Monthly Favourites video. — 00:02:15
  • 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits James Clear says that to build good habits you should make them obvious: to floss, keep the floss on the bathroom counter rather than in the cabinet. — 00:09:34

Also named in: How I use Notion as a Resonance Calendar

2018

  • 2018-11-01 · My Favourite iPhone XS Apps — recommendation: Ali is reading Atomic Habits by James Clear, which he calls very good and tells viewers to check out. — 00:02:57
  • 2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — recommendation: Ali recommends James Clear's Atomic Habits for its four-part framework for building good habits, much of which he thinks applies to fighting procrastination. — 00:20:00
    • James Clear (quoted): James Clear's Atomic Habits says that habits are the compound interest of life. — 00:32:34