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Atomic Habits. O cale ușoară și eficientă de a-ți forma obiceiuri bune și a scapa de cele proaste by James Clear
30 reviews
michelle_bracher's review against another edition
I just couldn't with this book which is yet another self-help book that assumes everyone wants to either lose weight or bulk up at the gym. The amount of fat phobia, body shaming and food judgement in this book is shocking. Despite saying early on that people shouldn't be goal orientated, it seems every paragraph has a comment on losing weight or giving up 'junk food'. Clear's fat phobia became very explicit when he casually drops the line 'Getting in shape can help improve your health and your dating prospects' - excuse me?! He also bangs on a lot about weight and health despite the fact that you can't see someone's health from their size and that anorexia remains the most fatal mental health disorder. The author needs to do some serious reading about Health at Every Size (HAES) and start looking at his own lazy sterotyping before he starts preaching to others about their habits.
Clear is also guilty of severely cherry picking his anecdotes, claiming in one that the British cycling team started winning more after their new coach started implementing better sleep routines, training equipment, and outfits and neatly overlooks the fact that around the same time British cycling got a huge monetary injection from the British government allowing them to afford all those things for the first time.
Clear is not a doctor, a dietician, a nutritionalist or a psychologist - he is a blogger who has managed to cobble together enough articles for a book.
Clear is also guilty of severely cherry picking his anecdotes, claiming in one that the British cycling team started winning more after their new coach started implementing better sleep routines, training equipment, and outfits and neatly overlooks the fact that around the same time British cycling got a huge monetary injection from the British government allowing them to afford all those things for the first time.
Clear is not a doctor, a dietician, a nutritionalist or a psychologist - he is a blogger who has managed to cobble together enough articles for a book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming
anafuentes's review against another edition
had some good tidbits and was enjoying it for a while but then i got tired of reading about being productive instead of fun fiction. may pick it up later though as i only rented this for a few days from my library. also was a bit uncomfortable with the diet culture stuff when i’m trying to get past that mentality. i get it was examples but there was a bit of misinformation even within the examples.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming
audreyxine's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
3.0
This book gave amazing and simple advice. It is definitely going to make a change in my life and many others' as well. I especially loved the bit about changing the environment and approaching habits with a nonjudgmental attitude. I think these are great ideas and I'm very hopeful after reading this. I do have a couple nitpicky thoughts though:
You can tell the author is an athlete. There are lots of sports metaphors and references to losing weight. I was not a fan of how losing weight and restricting calories were always referred to as positive goals- it can be reductive and harmful to do this. While the simplicity of this book is a big strength, the world is not always so black and white.
You can tell the author is an athlete. There are lots of sports metaphors and references to losing weight. I was not a fan of how losing weight and restricting calories were always referred to as positive goals- it can be reductive and harmful to do this. While the simplicity of this book is a big strength, the world is not always so black and white.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Injury/Injury detail
cbalparda802's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body shaming
hannahlh's review against another edition
Unable, at the moment, to get past Clear’s rather pernicious habit of falling back on on intentional weight loss, rather than a more inclusive interpretation of health, in his examples.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia and Body shaming
jessicafacchinigould's review against another edition
1.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Classism
karolinaz's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
abbeysus's review against another edition
fast-paced
1.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Mental illness
albyatross's review against another edition
informative
reflective
I picked this up because it's very popular on YouTube, and I think because of that, I heard all the main points before I read it. If you've read Charles Duhigg's work before, this is very similar, and even references his work.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body shaming
Minor: Alcoholism
Definitely mentions weight loss frequently as an example, and that might be harmful to some people.sarahaf712's review against another edition
Ableist, classist, fatphobic, takes credit for the mental labour AFAB people do constantly. Hated this.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Sexism, Ableism, Body shaming, and Classism