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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

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rusty_spurs's review

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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jesromas's review against another edition

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slow-paced

I read this because it seems so universally liked I thought maybe it’d be an exception to the self-help genre. It wasn’t. This was like if Jordan Peterson had more centrist PR and was slightly less senile. The endless moralizing of weight loss was actually just exhausting. Outside of that it was just inane self-improvement tidbits drawn out and repeated over and over to make a marketable 300-page book. The whole thing could’ve been a blog post, which kinda tracks considering he promotes his blog in nearly every chapter.

TLDR: This felt like a horrible Tinder date with a white business student.

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mnerd63's review

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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tallhousecookies's review

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I'm not one for self-help books in general because a lot of the ones that are popular tend to have the message of "Think positively and everything will get better." This is not that kind of book. Sure, it doesn't tend to address the systemic or health-related issues that could prevent you from living the life you dream about, but it breaks down the science and psychology of habits in a way that is attainable and actionable, which is a lot more than I can say for most self-help. I ended up taking a lot of notes throughout, which is generally a good sign for me. It's not a perfect book, but it did make the prospect of achieving your goals attainable.

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gilnean's review

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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vaenire's review

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medium-paced

2.0

Fatphobic at best, logically flawed at worst. This could’ve been an email with all of the important information, but instead he pulls it out with constant fatphobic comments, references to addiction, repetition and references to pop science theories on human evolution like that of Jared Diamond.
My biggest disappointment is that there is virtually nothing new except a catchy way to verbalize what we know about habit formation. Make it easy, put reminders around your space, set up a reward or combine new habits with existing habits. There you go, you don’t have to read it now.

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applesaucecreachur's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.25

Some of the primary things I got out of this book:

Make it easier on yourself – Go slowly into new, helpful habits bit-by-bit
Reward yourself, being mindful that those rewards align with what you are striving toward
Make the habits you are divesting from less appealing
Behave as though you are the person you're striving to be; don't think "I'm quitting x", think "I do not do x"

These and other similar lessons were helpful. However, the repeated exemplars of nutrition and exercise as they relate to body size/appearance were not universally applicable; these examples and many like them felt like inappropriately-universalized prescriptions for an audience that likely strives to do more than alter their weight. While I did pick up some pointers, it was clear that this book was written by a businessman, and not a behavioral scientist or humanist.

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