Supercharge Your Developer Journey with Tiny Atomic Habits

What if your daily systems, not your goals, were the key to supercharging your career? Discover how to build tiny habits that stick.

#1about 2 minutes

The power of accumulating tiny achievements

The British cycling team's success demonstrates how making small, 1% improvements in many areas leads to remarkable overall results.

#2about 4 minutes

Why focusing on systems is better than goals

Instead of being driven by specific goals which offer no guarantee of success, focus on improving your daily systems and habits for long-term growth.

#3about 3 minutes

Understanding the four stages of habit formation

Every habit follows a four-stage loop of cue, craving, response, and reward, which strengthens neural pathways and makes the behavior automatic.

#4about 9 minutes

Applying the four laws to build good habits

To build a good habit like continuous learning, make the cue obvious, the craving attractive, the response easy, and the reward satisfying.

#5about 6 minutes

How to break bad habits by inverting the laws

Break bad habits like getting distracted by making the cue invisible, the craving unattractive, the response difficult, and the reward unsatisfying.

#6about 4 minutes

A summary of the four laws of behavior change

A complete review of the four laws for building good habits (obvious, attractive, easy, satisfying) and breaking bad ones (invisible, unattractive, difficult, unsatisfying).

#7about 3 minutes

Q&A on managing energy and unwanted habits

The speaker answers audience questions about finding mental capacity to learn after work and strategies for tackling necessary but undesirable habits.

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.