Make Good Habits Easy and Bad Habits Difficult

In order to stick to something, get rid of the roadblocks

Yi Shun Lai
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7 min readOct 5, 2021

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In his book Atomic Habits, writer James Clear posits four laws of behavior change. The third is all about making good habits easy. And its inversion, making bad habits difficult, is just as important, maybe because it’s so closely related to removing the friction from creating a good habit.

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Yi Shun Lai
Forge

Author: A SUFFRAGISTS’S GUIDE TO THE ANTARCTIC (2024), Pin Ups (2020). Former columnist, The Writer. theGooddirt.org Psst: Say “yeeshun.” You can do it!