{"id":2280,"date":"2021-07-16T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2021-07-16T08:53:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:53:24","slug":"atomic-habits-by-james-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/atomic-habits-by-james-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Habits, by James Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I write this, <em>Atomic Habits<\/em> has spent 85 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list in the category &#8216;Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous&#8217;.  This is extraordinary, and out of curiosity I decided to try it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Clear is not a scientist, though he&#8217;s a self-declared expert on habits, and my first impression of the book as I read about a childhood accident he had, his experience as a baseball player and businessman, was not a good one.  But the book grew on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He writes well, he cites good sources (all footnoted), he sums up his main points at the end of every (very short) chapter, and the book makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic point &#8211; made by him and others who write about this field &#8211; seems to be to make small changes, be consistent, and over time you&#8217;ll get results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re struggling with the examples he frequently cites &#8212; you want to lose weight, read more books, do better in your profession, etc. &#8212; this book is not a bad place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, Atomic Habits has spent 85 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list in the category &#8216;Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous&#8217;. This is extraordinary, and out of curiosity I decided to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}