Atomic Habits: A Torah Take

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay good evening and welcome to once again our uh program of for a series of four talks torah take on motivational books we've done this for several years now and uh grateful that the other rabbis of our show will be speaking and lending their wisdom and insights and what they've gained from some of their favorite books and i want to talk to you tonight about a book that we've shared before atomic habits james clear spoken shabbat shiva a few years ago and in fact you could find it online you could watch it was back in the day that shabushuba was being streamed so it is on youtube for the full length it's an hour and a half but before you panic we're trying to change our habit of not speaking celenti so we're going to do a more condensed version and remind a review and add some new ideas and new notions to try to inspire ourselves this is the time of year it's l we're counting down counting up towards a better version of ourselves and it begins with change begins with changing our habits and forming more positive and better ones the reality is that we are incredibly we are creatures of habit i'll never forget when we moved we used to live in captiva we moved to thornhill green many years ago and it was a few weeks after we had moved not hours or days and i was driving back from somewhere i was driving home from somewhere probably was on the phone talking and all of a sudden i found myself in the driveway of our previous home i started to get out of the car and then i said one second what am i doing here we don't live here anymore

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1. 0:00okay good evening and welcome to once again our uh program of for a series of…
2. 4:38that i've taken out that i'm still trying to to work on myself pasuk says and…
3. 9:44inspired by sitter snippets so you think about hashem for the first day or two days…
4. 14:20you're a bad child you're a good child that's bad behavior it's beneath you if you're…
5. 19:28abaid change your identity i'm a runner i'm a learner i'm a governor i'm punctual i'm…
6. 24:07this point to make your habits more attractive you can take the strategy a step further…
7. 29:22of the most effective things we can do to build better habits to join the culture…
8. 33:57did you really get what gets measured gets managed you can't change a habit unless you're…
9. 39:05the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent this can be a difficult concept to appreciate…
10. 43:39learn one more minute read one more paragraph one percent change in eating habit one percent…

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