Atomic Habits Summary and Key Takeaways on Audiobook – Priceless

Since I’ve been recognizing the value of absorbing some best, selling self development books by listening to them, it’s hard to remember everything you’ve learned. Time just passes as I’m listening to great content. A lot of times with my eyes closed. I can’t say that learning this way is absorbing as well into my brain because I can’t go back and look at notes that I’ve taken, because I really haven’t taken any.
If I liked the book, I bought it on Amazon for the kindle version, like mind, hacking happiness by Sean Webb, and I can refer to it whenever I want without having to have a hard copy of the book take up my space. Remember I’m trying to be minimal.
There are, however, summaries available for some of these books, where you can refresh your mind with the key takeaways, without having to reach through all of the case studies or fluff, as James Clear calls it in his summary of atomic habits.
Now, when I read the book a few months ago, or listened to it at least, it was in the voice of the author. When you have it this way it’s red with such conviction because it’s coming straight from the heart. I really enjoyed listening to him talk about the valuable points that he was making about drilling down to the smallest habit you have to refine all of your current habits, ditch, the bad ones and stack better ones.
The great thing about the summary was that it was wrapped up in about 45 minutes, when normally it was over three hours, I believe. Don’t quote me on that, but my point is that it took a longer time to read that book in its entirety.
In just two days time, into 20 minute cardio sessions, I absorbed all of the major points. The book drives home. The latest thing that I am doing now is making a scorecard of all of my habits. This comes in chapter 4.
I drill down to the smallest habit, from getting dressed in the morning, laying out my clothes at night, brushing my teeth. All of the pretty mundane stuff. It might seem pretty boring and unnecessary, but when you have limited mobility, like myself, every little step takes energy. If I can refine my processes down to the little nitty-gritty of getting myself dressed in the morning, then I’m going to have a much better day doing the things that I enjoy.
It was nice to read a summary instead of going back to the main book. And I do enjoy, listening to James clear. He is a great narrator, and even more believes in the content that he is reading to you. Because he wrote it.
And I am highly recommending atomic habits, one of the first self-help books I started reading a few months ago. When you drill down to the tiniest things, it might take your time, but it saves you time and energy in the long run. And it makes you focus on the good things that you do , and less of the bad things.