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The book 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear doesn't explicitly mention the four steps to break a bad habit in the provided content. However, based on the book's overall teachings, one can infer that the four steps to break a bad habit could be the inversion of the four laws of behavior change proposed by Clear. These are: 1) Make it invisible (reduce exposure to the cues of your bad habits), 2) Make it unattractive (reframe the way you think about your bad habits), 3) Make it difficult (increase the friction associated with bad habits), and 4) Make it unsatisfying (make the cost of your bad habits feel immediate).
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This is exactly what the Japanese manufacturers of cars and electronics did. They made it as easy as possible for their workers to form habits and complete each task they needed to do as efficiently and accurately as possible. As a result, by 1974 American televisions received five times as many service calls as their Japanese counterparts. And by 1979 Japanese manufacturers assembled their sets three times as quickly as American manufacturers. Conversely, a bad habit can be broken if one inverts these four steps:
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