A review by angelfoodcakes
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

informative medium-paced

3.0

Interesting if you want to learn about things like the science behind and ethical debates surrounding habits and habit formation. I enjoyed the read, however, I can understand why people looking for books on how to form better habits or change old ones might not. If you’re looking for straightforward advice in this case you’d be better off reading Atomic Habits, but that’s not to say there’s nothing to be learned from this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Medical trauma, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Minor: Pregnancy

While this book is about the science of habit formation, it uses real world examples to discuss these topics and they can get pretty graphic at times. This includes a detailed breakdown of the 1987 King’s Cross fire, a description of a botched brain surgery, discussions of a man murdering his wife in his sleep, and of course several examples of addiction.