NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast … habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential. At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. As Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.
With a new Afterword by the author
“Sharp, provocative, and useful.”—Jim Collins
“Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception. Charles Duhigg not only explains how habits are formed but how to kick bad ones and hang on to the good.”—Financial Times
“A flat-out great read.”—David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“You’ll never look at yourself, your organization, or your world quite the same way.”—Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind
“Entertaining . . . enjoyable . . . fascinating . . . a serious look at the science of habit formation and change.”—The New York Times Book Review
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This book described how to save time, be more thorough, and be more reliable by doing routine things automatically, by habit.
Duhigg is a master writer that captures and provides an in-depth review of habit utilizing real-world stories and examples. It was hard to put this book down.
Highly referenced and reccommended
New perspective on making and breaking habits
One of those life changing books
I loved this book. There was so much information within I find myself referring back to it time and time again. I love the stories within the chapters, and would highly recommend this book to many!
It is very insightful on the topic of habit
Excellent book on forming new habits and breaking old ones.
Finally proof of the physical existence of the subconscious mind! if you don’t believe in the power of habit you will be shocked to learn corporations are sinking Millions into researching how to control your subconscious!!! Amazing book!
Insightful book on how habits and formed. Gives good examples from a variety of aspects in society.
I initially thought this was a book I could quickly scan and learn about how to form good habits. Wrong! The book explores how habits affect our brain and behavior in ways we don’t realize. I recommend this book to everyone – as well as his other title: Faster, Smarter, Better. This book will definitely change your view of the world and your …
Good self help book.
This book is an excellent companion to my recently released book: “Motivational Spirit: How to Keep Yours Solid as a Rock!”
I highly recommend this book because it is very insightful and informative in highlighting how our daily habits impact not only our lives but also those around us. It is a very interesting and well written…very good …
This book explains how habits work very well. It shares the science and breaks it down into useful tips for changing and creating habits in your own life. This is exactly what I was looking for so I did not read the second and third parts of the book which focus on habits of organizations and habits of societies.
Very interesting insights on the power of good habits to improve your life and encouragement to get the bad ones under control.
Excellent book, if you want to learn more about habits, how and why we form them, and what we can do to break bad habits.
Explains why we have so much trouble with those resolutions each year.
Great information about how we can create our future.
I love how the book breaks down how to build habits, and how habits affect you, a group and an organization.
Not at all what I thought this book would be about