Chapter - 4 Atomic Habits
24 August 2022
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
-Carl Jung
- The fourth chapter actually explains the word 'Habits' and how we practice a thing repeatedly and unknowingly it becomes our identity to go for it.
- He has taken many examples the one which I was able to connect a lot was this:
- He explains 'Military analysts can identify which blip on a radar screen is an enemy missile and which one is a plane from their own fleet even though they are traveling at the same speed, flying at the same altitude, and look identical on the radar in nearly every respect. During the Gulf War, Lieutenant Commander Michael Riley saved an entire battleship when he ordered a missile shot down—despite the fact that it looked exactly like the battleship’s own planes on radar. He made the right call, but even his superior officers couldn’t explain how he did it.
- Becuase I have seen those radars not actually but because I have an inclination towards technology I have seen few of these virtually. They really look identitcal even all flying obejcts in a radar look similar
- It's the power of the human brain that observes and analyses the surroundings and after repeated tasks, it automates the process which on one hand helps to automate things a lot, but at the same time if a mistake is committed it will be repeated uncomnsiously
- The best way to deal with this is to make unconscious conscious Japanese do to it by the technique called 'pointing and calling' used at Japanese railways to call out loud all the events like the flag is green, Train is leaving and speed is this at this time. which helps them minimize the mistakes to a greater extent
- We can’t always explain what it is we are learning, but learning is happening all along the way, and your ability to notice the relevant cues in a given situation is the foundation for every habit you have.
- It is not only about creating good habits essentially there are no good or bad habits there are just habits that gives you a solution to the problem due to which you repeat them and called them a habit
- But some of these habits tend to solve short-term problems or give short-term rewards but harm us in the long term which we term as bad habits. On the contrary, good habits are the things we do that might be a pain now but will give us a sense of success and accomplishment in the long run.
- We need to know or in other words, make unconscious conscious about what habits are we pursuing for which we need to trace our daily habits and rank them good or bad according to our goal about how we want to become does these things align with them or not
- Doing this we will realize the mistakes we are making firmly and we will be working on them rather than regretting about them
Posted inBook - Atomic Habitsby Harsh Jaiswani
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