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A review by saadamansayyed
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
3.75
Atomic Habits is one of the best-written self-help books I have read. The issue with self-help books is that it is difficult to rate them until you apply the learnings from them into your daily life and even then, since correlation does not equal causation, it is kind of hard to judge them. Therefore, what I feel about the book is basically just gut feeling, a look at how it's written and how well it delivers its advice and my internal balderdash detector looking for nonsense (surprisingly common in self-help books, "The Secret" being a good example).
The book is terrifically written, highly practical, and is really really good at giving analogies and examples that make sense. However, there are some stories where the strategies mentioned are a case of the classic fallacy of correlation = causation. Also the book feels like a massive advertisement for James Clear's own website, Habits Academy, etc.
The book is terrifically written, highly practical, and is really really good at giving analogies and examples that make sense. However, there are some stories where the strategies mentioned are a case of the classic fallacy of correlation = causation. Also the book feels like a massive advertisement for James Clear's own website, Habits Academy, etc.