Serendipity and Learning

Atomic Habits by James Clear takes off where The power of habit by Charles Duhigg leaves off. It takes a behavioural route to building good ideas as opposed to a more checklist oriented approach. It has some interesting propositions - creating a 1% increment, building a stack of ideas, making desirable ideas easy and attractive while at the same time making undesirable ideas difficult and unattractive among other things. The power of compounding as attached to habits is what creates a superpower. You work out each day and in 6 months, it compounds. You read each day and in a few years, it compounds many times over. This is the part which resonated with me because my reading habit is a good example of how it is a well developed superpower - I wish I could say the same about my writing as well. And that is how skills are built - a bit each time. The book was recommended to me by a number of people and it lives up to expectations.