📒 Summary + Notes

• Prologue — The Habit Cure
• Part One — The Habits of Individuals
• Part Two — The Habits of Successful Organizations
• Part Three — The Habits of Societies
• Appendix (Reader's Guide to Using These Ideas: A Framework)

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

1. The book showcases a certain framework — AKA the habit loop — that exhibits our cues, routines, and rewards for the habits in our lives.
2. The book provides a variety of stories from individuals, organizations, and societal events that display how habits play a role in our lives.
3. The book introduces specific concepts that help us understand habits in a deeper sense.

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

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• The Habit Loop: Craving → Routine (Habit) → Reward
• Habits are automated, natural, and second-nature
• Understanding how companies make use of habits in the success of their products/services
• Keystone habits are habits that allow other habits to happen (e.g. getting on a cab to go to the gym)
• Believing that you can change is essential in making that change happen
• In changing our habits, we identify and keep the cue and reward and change our routines
• How the willpower muscle is a key factor in changing our habits — it is related to self-discipline
• Crises are opportunities for reform