Date: March 12,2022
Author: Sequoia

"Tiny changes, remarkable results"

I just started reading the book entitled Atomic Habits by James Clear today. For those of you who didn't know, today's my uncle's 50th birthday and we went to his place to celebrate it with him. I am well aware that there's no signal in that place and so, I made sure to have something that would lessen my boredom and give me knowledge. I downloaded the ebook version of the said book and started my journey this afternoon.

Without any hypocrisy and lies, I must admit that I felt love at first read upon reading it. In fact, I didn't skip any pages because I am really loving it. Aside from my interest, one of the things that keeps me reading it was, it is comprehensible and able to deliver its points clearly.

The book discussed about the importance of little things. How valuable it is to start in small steps in order to achieve the bigger ones. And how our habits can either build us or break us.

In addition, it also give emphasis on the correlation of Atomic Habits and atoms. "Just as atoms are the building blocks of the molecule, Atomic habits are the building blocks of noticeable results."

Most of the time, we ignore the difference that small things can contribute to our lives. It is for the reason that we can't see instant result from it. We often forgot that as the time passes by, those small actions and decisions that we are contantly making, will surely be seen in the long run. Just like throwing garbages. Even if you say that you only throw once a day. But you keep on repeating it everyday, you will surely see how it will slowly grow and create a mess and destruction on the surroundings.

Your success will be determine through your habits. You have to keep in mind that good habits will lead you to the life that you wanted. But the bad habits will break you and keep you away from the things that you desires. Our habits will tell us who we are.

Plateau of Latent Potential

There will be times that no matter how long or hard we work on something, we still can't see any changes on it. But it doesn't implies that our efforts are wasted. Maybe we just haven't cross the Plateau of Latent Potential yet. In which, our works are being stored until it hits the maximum limit and burst. I remembered the author explaining this one through an ice cube. If you put an ice cube in a room with 25 degrees. Nothing would happen. Therefore, you keep on increasing the temperature till 31 degrees. However, you can't still find any tangible changes in the ice cube. You decided to increase it more into 32 degrees and witness the ice cube slowly melts. That's how the progress exactly works. We have to reach the critical threshold to unlock new level of performance and see changes- Plateau of Latent Potential.

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Reminder

Progress doesn't happened overnight. We have to work on it day and night before we see results. No matter how slow it is, a progress will always be a progress.

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I haven't finished it yet but I've already learned a lot from it. If you are looking for a good book to read, please try this. You won't regret it. I wanted to share everything in here but it'll will surely take so much time. With that being said, I will try my best to write a Part 2 of this. For now, please bear with this one. Thank you for your time. God bless!