Today marks day 12 of reading Atomic Habits, in this chapter review, we will learn about how we naturally gravitate towards doing less work.
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This chapter follows up Chapter 11, where we learned about making habits easy.
Chapter Summary:
- “Human behavior follows the Law of Least Effort. We will naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work.” I don’t think I need to explain this one, we all know it’s true, you would think it would be the other way around though, so that we become more successful, but the body/mind is not a fan of wasting energy.
- “Create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.” If you have read the previous summaries then this isn’t anything new. If you want to be successful, make your environment one that will make you succeed.
- “Reduce the friction associated with good behaviors. When friction is low, habits are easy.” If you wanted to go to the gym, it would cause less friction if going to the gym was also on the way to work.
- “Increase the friction associated with bad behaviors. When friction is high, habits are difficult.” If you wanted to stop playing video-games as much, then unplug the console and put it away every time you stop playing, the next time you go to play, you will hesitate, because the friction it would take to open the closet, grab the console, and plug it in is not as appealing as sitting down and grabbing a controller that instantly turns the console on.
- “Prime your environment to make future actions easier.” This is essentially the moral of the story, want to do less of something? Make it harder to do said thing, want to do more of something? Make it easier to do said thing.
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