The holy Grail of habit change is not a…

The holy Grail of habit change is not a single one percent improvement but 1000 of them. It's a bunch of atomic habits stacking up each one, a fundamental unit of the overall system.

— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Atomic Habits by James Clear

In the book

The more friction between you and a thing, the less likely you are to do it, so the craft is to remove friction from the good and pile it onto the bad, making the bad habit downright inconvenient. And do not chase one heroic leap; the real prize is not a single one-percent improvement but a thousand of them, small atomic habits stacking up over the years. A few deeper truths about habit have served me more than any single technique. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)

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