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

medium-paced

2.0

I guess this book would have been helpful if I had never been given any advice or watched a TED Talk regarding habit formation. I know anecdotes at the beginning of chapters is like the THING with self-help books, but wow, these were particularly mediocre. As an aside, I'd like to politely ask everyone to stop writing self-help books in which every third example for improvement is weight-loss or fitness related, and quit using the word "obesity" when you're just looking for a word that signals you're fatphobic but "it's only because of health!" yeah, I'm sure. (Here's a specific example. To prove a point about masochism, I guess, the author shares an example of how a man signed a paper saying he would do x, y, and z if he didn't go to the gym or eat the proper macronutrients or whatever. Does the author give a disclaimer on how this behavior could be symptoms of an eating disorder for a lot of people? Nope.)
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