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A review by michael_taylor
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
funny
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
3.75
A quick read regarding the power of habits (both positive & negative). The information is to the point, accessible and well presented. There are chapter summaries, checklists and all kinds of nice simple tools in here. It's all presented in such a way that if you chose to follow the advice of the book it would be hard to miss a step. James Clear is a good author in this regard. He makes everything very readable and is very good at explaining his concepts and ideas.
There is a formula in this book that becomes apparent right away. Each chapter starts with the stories of successful people (athletes, journalists, comedians, etc..) that highlight how through the correct habituation, anything is possible. This is nice but it does end up feeling a little bit like padding towards the end. My edition of this book also had several spelling and grammatical errors. Enough that it affected my overall score of the book. One or two would have been strange but there were enough that I took notice and it started to bother me.
There is a formula in this book that becomes apparent right away. Each chapter starts with the stories of successful people (athletes, journalists, comedians, etc..) that highlight how through the correct habituation, anything is possible. This is nice but it does end up feeling a little bit like padding towards the end. My edition of this book also had several spelling and grammatical errors. Enough that it affected my overall score of the book. One or two would have been strange but there were enough that I took notice and it started to bother me.