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Thursday, August 13

  • Book club: Unreasonable Hospitality
    • Priya, Sam, Jordan
  • Pick the next book: Atomic Habits
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      Thursday, August 13

      • Book club: Unreasonable Hospitality
      • Pick the next book: Atomic Habits
      Linking Atomic Habits from the meeting's page
    2. the line you just wrote

      Atomic Habits

      • by James Clear

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      • Sunday, September 13Finished the first part of Atomic Habits
      • Saturday, September 12Three discussion questions on Atomic Habits
      • Thursday, August 13Pick the next book: Atomic Habits
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  • Three discussion questions on [[Atomic Habits]]
    • What's the smallest habit you've kept going?
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  • @Research is the two-minute rule backed by any studies?

    Not directly. In the study behind it, habits took about two months of daily repetition to become automatic.

    Lally et al., 2010

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