RomeoStevens comments on Common failure modes in habit formation - Less Wrong

14 Post author: RomeoStevens 28 June 2013 05:28AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 28 June 2013 07:30:15AM *  3 points [-]

I found Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit a useful and enjoyable read on habit building, although it is a little Malcolm Gladwell-esque. Anyone here read it, and if so, what did you think of it?

Comment author: RomeoStevens 28 June 2013 09:32:14AM 0 points [-]

From reading reviews it seems the interesting claim of the book is that choosing which habits to build is a lot trickier and more important (due to subtle wide ranging effects) than building a habit, which is asserted as fairly straightforward.