When Habits Feel Impossible: Why I Needed Atomic Habits to Talk About Systems Instead

I used to lose my wallet and keys multiple times a day. My ADHD brain viewed "habits" as a personal attack. Then I read Atomic Habits by James Clear and discovered the one-word swap that changed everything: systems over habits.

Clear doesn't just preach willpower. He teaches you to design environments where good choices become inevitable. From the British cycling team's "aggregation of marginal gains" to my NFC-tagged supplement bottle that timestamps my calendar, this book isn't about discipline. It's about design.

You're not broken. Your system is. And systems, unlike habits, can be rebuilt.