I know, I know, everyone is touting Atomic Habits by James Clear. At the risk of this being a cheugy option for the first-ever Sunday Scaries Book Club, I will be going on my maiden voyage with it tonight before the cold temperatures hit Austin.
Have you read Atomic Habits yet? Any favorite chapters or passages? Comments? Criticisms? Critiques?
Finally read the book recently, for those on the fence I found it to be one of the only self help books that is worth it. It’s not going to blow your mind with new facts but the way I’d was organized clicked for me.
Read it over this past summer - a great read that helps framing of tasks to actually get things done and see tangible improvements like:
If your goal is to run more, make the goal putting on your running shoes. If you put on your shoes, you’re going to run or at least go for a walk. Putting on the shoes is easy compared to visualizing your run.
There is also the salesman paper clip anecdote about the salesman who would have 200 paper clips in one clear jar and when he made a call he would move them to an empty jar. Once he cleared the first jar he’d go for a break and when he came back he’d repeat the process.
Sure, there are a lot of standard “self help” aspect of the book but I think it really beats out other books like “How to Do Nothing” which I tried multiple times to read but couldn’t finish.
I had extremely high hopes for "How To Do Nothing" and ended up realizing it was going in a totally different direction than what I wanted. I thought a few chapters were interesting but I never got beyond halfway through the book.
Excited for this one which seems to be much more approachable.
I read this book two years ago and have found any excuse to gift a copy to friends, family and colleagues. So many little gems of actionable wisdom throughout. Can’t fault it.
Finally read the book recently, for those on the fence I found it to be one of the only self help books that is worth it. It’s not going to blow your mind with new facts but the way I’d was organized clicked for me.
Read it over this past summer - a great read that helps framing of tasks to actually get things done and see tangible improvements like:
If your goal is to run more, make the goal putting on your running shoes. If you put on your shoes, you’re going to run or at least go for a walk. Putting on the shoes is easy compared to visualizing your run.
There is also the salesman paper clip anecdote about the salesman who would have 200 paper clips in one clear jar and when he made a call he would move them to an empty jar. Once he cleared the first jar he’d go for a break and when he came back he’d repeat the process.
Sure, there are a lot of standard “self help” aspect of the book but I think it really beats out other books like “How to Do Nothing” which I tried multiple times to read but couldn’t finish.
I had extremely high hopes for "How To Do Nothing" and ended up realizing it was going in a totally different direction than what I wanted. I thought a few chapters were interesting but I never got beyond halfway through the book.
Excited for this one which seems to be much more approachable.
I read this book two years ago and have found any excuse to gift a copy to friends, family and colleagues. So many little gems of actionable wisdom throughout. Can’t fault it.