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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa034.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://northeastbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/book-review-atomic-habits/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://northeastbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/book-review-atomic-habits/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/lifestyle\/book-review-atomic-habits\/","crawl_time":1776049752,"first_indexed_time":1739360627,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"uk,co,northeastbylines!\/lifestyle\/book-review-atomic-habits\/ s443","src_root_hash":"11823339994917873834","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Book review: Atomic Habits","meta_descriptions":["James Clear's Atomic Habits aims to guide people towards becoming better versions of themselves by learning and maintaining daily habits through mental instruction"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Atomic Habits, published in 2018, is a bestselling book written by James Clear. It became popular for its new approaches on applying good habits and eliminating bad ones, all for having a better life. This book even became one of the fastest books to receive nearly 1 million ratings on Goodreads. Let’s delve into this book to see what’s inside.\nThe content\nFlipping through the pages of this book, the content is divided into chapters, giving readers a sense of order and logic. James Clear will lead us to the previous time when he recovered from the injuries that almost took his life immediately and how he became better and better by building good habits as well as breaking off bad habits. After “listening” to his story, he will tell us more about the definition, the long – lasting effects of habits, how it changes our identity, etc. The next four chapters, which are the main parts of the book, are the core principles of changing habits. In other words, they are all James Clear’s distinctive rules of making tiny changes, including: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying. Interestingly, not only James gives us these rules to move toward attaining good habits but also shares their inversions (or known as the reversals) in order to get rid of the bad ones. As the book comes to an end, the author will give us some tips and pieces of advice on being truly superior once we have become merely good from acquiring good habits in a long period of time.\nThe Best Parts\nAs soon as I finished this book, I quickly noted down every detail and figure that made me think, contemplating about it over and over. After a few days of revising what I have learned from this book, these were the details that I acknowledged the most:\n0,1% better each day means 37% better each year\nLooking at this detail, I think of 2 main ideas and I do think that they have a connection to each other: The more we learn, the more we improve ourselves and as we learn, our base of knowledge begins to expand, we slowly become better than who we were yesterday. However, if we don’t make attempts to learn or absorb, we will always remain the same at 0,1% like who we were on previous days.\nThe progress line is not always linear\nIn the long run, we always expect progress to be stable. But the truth is, we are settling in reality. Along with the ups are the downs that will inevitably appear on our road to reaching our goals, so be prepared to overcome them as they will help you grow better, bolder and stronger.\nA creative approach to habits\nApart from the traditional ways of demonstrating the habit – changing strategies, which are lengthy and complicated, James has a totally contrasting way of approaching the subject of habits. Instead of explaining endlessly a strategy with statistics and lots of theories, he just keeps all of the strategies short, simple, practical and captivating to the readers. This could explain why his book became a bestseller for months. \nFinal thoughts\nAll in all, this is an interesting read for anyone who wants to enjoy and learn the new tactics, new rules of replacing bad habits with good habits. This book has a combination of both Gen-Y and Gen-Z writing styles, which attracts a majority of the book audience. To me, this is the book that shaped my personality and I still read it over and over whenever I’m free. \nCLICK\nHERE\nTO DONATE TO OUR CROWDFUNDER\nHELP US BECOME STRONGER SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DELIVER POWERFUL CITIZEN JOURNALISM!\nBach Ngoc Hieu\nBach Ngoc Hieu lives in Ha Noi, Vietnam, where he's partway through a degree in international relations and works as an English tutor and teaching assistant. He loves researching and writing about social, academic or educational matters","attrs_markdown":"- [Contact](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/contact-us-2\/)\n- [About](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/the-north-east-bylines-team\/)\n- [ISSN 3049-9763]()\n- [Authors and editors](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/authors\/)\n\n[NEWSLETTER SIGN UP](https:\/\/bylinesnetwork.co.uk\/engage\/#news)\n\n[![North East Bylines](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NEB-1x355-1.png)](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/)\n\n[![Advertisement](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)](https:\/\/bylinesnetwork.co.uk\/donate\/)\n\n- [Home](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/)\n- [News](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/news\/)\n- [Culture](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/culture\/)\n- [Lifestyle](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/lifestyle\/)\n- [Business](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/business\/)\n- [Region](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/region\/)\n- [Opinion](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/news\/opinion\/)\n\n[AUDIO](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/audio)\n\nNo Result\n\nView All Result\n\n- [Home](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/)\n- [News](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/news\/)\n- [Culture](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/culture\/)\n- [Lifestyle](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/lifestyle\/)\n- [Business](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/business\/)\n- [Region](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/region\/)\n- [Opinion](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/news\/opinion\/)\n\nNo Result\n\nView All Result\n\n[![North East Bylines](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NEB-1x355-1.png)](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/)\n\n[![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)](https:\/\/bylinesnetwork.co.uk\/donate\/)  [![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)](https:\/\/bylinesnetwork.co.uk\/donate\/)\n\n[Home](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/)  [Culture](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/culture\/)  [Books](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/culture\/books\/)\n\n# Book review: Atomic Habits\n## James Clear's Atomic Habits aims to guide people towards becoming better versions of themselves by learning and maintaining daily habits through mental instruction\n![Bach Ngoc Hieu](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hieu-300x300.jpg)by[Bach Ngoc Hieu](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/author\/bachngochieu\/)\n\n[12-02-2025 11:30](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/lifestyle\/book-review-atomic-habits\/)\n\nin [Books](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/culture\/books\/), [Lifestyle](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/category\/lifestyle\/)\n\nReading Time: 4 mins read\n\nA A\n\nA\n\nA\n\nReset\n\n[![Atomic Habits by James Clear. Picture by James Clear, via Wikimedia Commons](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Atomic_habits-James-Clear-528x536.jpg)Atomic Habits by James Clear. Picture by James Clear, via Wikimedia Commons](https:\/\/northeastbylines.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Atomic_habits-James-Clear.jpg)\n\n[Share on Bluesky](https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Book%20review%3A%20Atomic%20Habits%20https%3A%2F%2Fnortheastbylines.co.uk%2Flifestyle%2Fbook-review-atomic-habits%2F)\n\n**Atomic Habits, published in 2018, is a bestselling book written by James Clear. It became popular for its new approaches on applying good habits and eliminating bad ones, all for having a better life. This book even became one of the fastest books to receive nearly 1 million ratings on Goodreads. Let’s delve into this book to see what’s inside.**\n\n## **The content**\nFlipping through the pages of this book, the content is divided into chapters, giving readers a sense of order and logic. James Clear will lead us to the previous time when he recovered from the injuries that almost took his life immediately and how he became better and better by building good habits as well as breaking off bad habits. After “listening” to his story, he will tell us more about the definition, the long – lasting effects of habits, how it changes our identity, etc. The next four chapters, which are the main parts of the book, are the core principles of changing habits. In other words, they are all James Clear’s distinctive rules of making tiny changes, including: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying. Interestingly, not only James gives us these rules to move toward attaining good habits but also shares their inversions (or known as the reversals) in order to get rid of the bad ones. As the book comes to an end, the author will give us some tips and pieces of advice on being truly superior once we have become merely good from acquiring good habits in a long period of time.\n\n## **The Best Parts**\nAs soon as I finished this book, I quickly noted down every detail and figure that made me think, contemplating about it over and over. After a few days of revising what I have learned from this book, these were the details that I acknowledged the most:\n\n- **0,1% better each day means 37% better each year**\n\nLooking at this detail, I think of 2 main ideas and I do think that they have a connection to each other: The more we learn, the more we improve ourselves and as we learn, our base of knowledge begins to expand, we slowly become better than who we were yesterday. However, if we don’t make attempts to learn or absorb, we will always remain the same at 0,1% like who we were on previous days.\n\n- **The progress line is not always linear**\n\nIn the long run, we always expect progress to be stable. But the truth is, we are settling in reality. Along with the ups are the downs that will inevitably appear on our road to reaching our goals, so be prepared to overcome them as they will help you grow better, bolder and stronger.\n\n- **A creative approach to habits**\n\nApart from the traditional ways of demonstrating the habit – changing strategies, which are lengthy and complicated, James has a totally contrasting way of approaching the subject of habits. Instead of explaining endlessly a strategy with statistics and lots of theories, he just keeps all of the strategies short, simple, practical and captivating to the readers. This could explain why his book became a bestseller for months.\n\n## **Final thoughts**\nAll in all, this is an interesting read for anyone who wants to enjoy and learn the new tactics, new rules of replacing bad habits with good habits. This book has a combination of both Gen-Y and Gen-Z writing styles, which attracts a majority of the book audience. 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After “listening” to his story, he will tell us more about the definition, the long – lasting effects of habits, how it changes our identity, etc. The next four chapters, which are the main parts of the book, are the core principles of changing habits. In other words, they are all James Clear’s distinctive rules of making tiny changes, including: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying. Interestingly, not only James gives us these rules to move toward attaining good habits but also shares their inversions (or known as the reversals) in order to get rid of the bad ones. As the book comes to an end, the author will give us some tips and pieces of advice on being truly superior once we have become merely good from acquiring good habits in a long period of time.\n\n## **The Best Parts**\nAs soon as I finished this book, I quickly noted down every detail and figure that made me think, contemplating about it over and over. 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Boilerpipe Text	Atomic Habits, published in 2018, is a bestselling book written by James Clear. It became popular for its new approaches on applying good habits and eliminating bad ones, all for having a better life. This book even became one of the fastest books to receive nearly 1 million ratings on Goodreads. Let’s delve into this book to see what’s inside. The content Flipping through the pages of this book, the content is divided into chapters, giving readers a sense of order and logic. James Clear will lead us to the previous time when he recovered from the injuries that almost took his life immediately and how he became better and better by building good habits as well as breaking off bad habits. After “listening” to his story, he will tell us more about the definition, the long – lasting effects of habits, how it changes our identity, etc. The next four chapters, which are the main parts of the book, are the core principles of changing habits. In other words, they are all James Clear’s distinctive rules of making tiny changes, including: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying. Interestingly, not only James gives us these rules to move toward attaining good habits but also shares their inversions (or known as the reversals) in order to get rid of the bad ones. As the book comes to an end, the author will give us some tips and pieces of advice on being truly superior once we have become merely good from acquiring good habits in a long period of time. The Best Parts As soon as I finished this book, I quickly noted down every detail and figure that made me think, contemplating about it over and over. After a few days of revising what I have learned from this book, these were the details that I acknowledged the most: 0,1% better each day means 37% better each year Looking at this detail, I think of 2 main ideas and I do think that they have a connection to each other: The more we learn, the more we improve ourselves and as we learn, our base of knowledge begins to expand, we slowly become better than who we were yesterday. However, if we don’t make attempts to learn or absorb, we will always remain the same at 0,1% like who we were on previous days. The progress line is not always linear In the long run, we always expect progress to be stable. But the truth is, we are settling in reality. Along with the ups are the downs that will inevitably appear on our road to reaching our goals, so be prepared to overcome them as they will help you grow better, bolder and stronger. A creative approach to habits Apart from the traditional ways of demonstrating the habit – changing strategies, which are lengthy and complicated, James has a totally contrasting way of approaching the subject of habits. Instead of explaining endlessly a strategy with statistics and lots of theories, he just keeps all of the strategies short, simple, practical and captivating to the readers. This could explain why his book became a bestseller for months. Final thoughts All in all, this is an interesting read for anyone who wants to enjoy and learn the new tactics, new rules of replacing bad habits with good habits. This book has a combination of both Gen-Y and Gen-Z writing styles, which attracts a majority of the book audience. To me, this is the book that shaped my personality and I still read it over and over whenever I’m free. CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO OUR CROWDFUNDER HELP US BECOME STRONGER SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DELIVER POWERFUL CITIZEN JOURNALISM! Bach Ngoc Hieu Bach Ngoc Hieu lives in Ha Noi, Vietnam, where he's partway through a degree in international relations and works as an English tutor and teaching assistant. He loves researching and writing about social, academic or educational matters
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James Clear will lead us to the previous time when he recovered from the injuries that almost took his life immediately and how he became better and better by building good habits as well as breaking off bad habits. After “listening” to his story, he will tell us more about the definition, the long – lasting effects of habits, how it changes our identity, etc. The next four chapters, which are the main parts of the book, are the core principles of changing habits. In other words, they are all James Clear’s distinctive rules of making tiny changes, including: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying. Interestingly, not only James gives us these rules to move toward attaining good habits but also shares their inversions (or known as the reversals) in order to get rid of the bad ones. As the book comes to an end, the author will give us some tips and pieces of advice on being truly superior once we have become merely good from acquiring good habits in a long period of time. ## The Best Parts As soon as I finished this book, I quickly noted down every detail and figure that made me think, contemplating about it over and over. After a few days of revising what I have learned from this book, these were the details that I acknowledged the most: - 0,1% better each day means 37% better each year Looking at this detail, I think of 2 main ideas and I do think that they have a connection to each other: The more we learn, the more we improve ourselves and as we learn, our base of knowledge begins to expand, we slowly become better than who we were yesterday. However, if we don’t make attempts to learn or absorb, we will always remain the same at 0,1% like who we were on previous days. - The progress line is not always linear In the long run, we always expect progress to be stable. But the truth is, we are settling in reality. Along with the ups are the downs that will inevitably appear on our road to reaching our goals, so be prepared to overcome them as they will help you grow better, bolder and stronger. - A creative approach to habits Apart from the traditional ways of demonstrating the habit – changing strategies, which are lengthy and complicated, James has a totally contrasting way of approaching the subject of habits. Instead of explaining endlessly a strategy with statistics and lots of theories, he just keeps all of the strategies short, simple, practical and captivating to the readers. 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Readable Markdown	Atomic Habits, published in 2018, is a bestselling book written by James Clear. It became popular for its new approaches on applying good habits and eliminating bad ones, all for having a better life. This book even became one of the fastest books to receive nearly 1 million ratings on Goodreads. Let’s delve into this book to see what’s inside. ## The content Flipping through the pages of this book, the content is divided into chapters, giving readers a sense of order and logic. James Clear will lead us to the previous time when he recovered from the injuries that almost took his life immediately and how he became better and better by building good habits as well as breaking off bad habits. After “listening” to his story, he will tell us more about the definition, the long – lasting effects of habits, how it changes our identity, etc. The next four chapters, which are the main parts of the book, are the core principles of changing habits. In other words, they are all James Clear’s distinctive rules of making tiny changes, including: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying. Interestingly, not only James gives us these rules to move toward attaining good habits but also shares their inversions (or known as the reversals) in order to get rid of the bad ones. As the book comes to an end, the author will give us some tips and pieces of advice on being truly superior once we have become merely good from acquiring good habits in a long period of time. ## The Best Parts As soon as I finished this book, I quickly noted down every detail and figure that made me think, contemplating about it over and over. After a few days of revising what I have learned from this book, these were the details that I acknowledged the most: - 0,1% better each day means 37% better each year Looking at this detail, I think of 2 main ideas and I do think that they have a connection to each other: The more we learn, the more we improve ourselves and as we learn, our base of knowledge begins to expand, we slowly become better than who we were yesterday. However, if we don’t make attempts to learn or absorb, we will always remain the same at 0,1% like who we were on previous days. - The progress line is not always linear In the long run, we always expect progress to be stable. But the truth is, we are settling in reality. Along with the ups are the downs that will inevitably appear on our road to reaching our goals, so be prepared to overcome them as they will help you grow better, bolder and stronger. - A creative approach to habits Apart from the traditional ways of demonstrating the habit – changing strategies, which are lengthy and complicated, James has a totally contrasting way of approaching the subject of habits. Instead of explaining endlessly a strategy with statistics and lots of theories, he just keeps all of the strategies short, simple, practical and captivating to the readers. This could explain why his book became a bestseller for months. ## Final thoughts All in all, this is an interesting read for anyone who wants to enjoy and learn the new tactics, new rules of replacing bad habits with good habits. This book has a combination of both Gen-Y and Gen-Z writing styles, which attracts a majority of the book audience. To me, this is the book that shaped my personality and I still read it over and over whenever I’m free. [![](https://northeastbylines.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Bylines_Network_Crowdfunder-1024x577.jpg)](https://chuffed.org/project/bylinesnetwork) CLICK [HERE](https://chuffed.org/project/bylinesnetwork) TO DONATE TO OUR CROWDFUNDER** HELP US BECOME STRONGER SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DELIVER POWERFUL CITIZEN JOURNALISM\!** [![](https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Chuffed.jpg)](https://chuffed.org/project/bylinesnetwork) ![Bach Ngoc Hieu](https://northeastbylines.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Hieu-300x300.jpg) ### [Bach Ngoc Hieu](https://northeastbylines.co.uk/author/bachngochieu/) Bach Ngoc Hieu lives in Ha Noi, Vietnam, where he's partway through a degree in international relations and works as an English tutor and teaching assistant. He loves researching and writing about social, academic or educational matters
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