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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change by [Charles Duhigg]

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There's never been a better time to set new habits. This book will change your life.

In The Power of Habit, award-winning journalist Charles Duhigg takes us into the thrilling and surprising world of the scientific study of habits.

He examines why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. He visits laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. And he uncovers how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr.

The result is a compelling argument and an empowering discovery: the key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive or even building revolutionary companies is understanding how habits work. By harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.
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'[An] essential manual for business and living.' Andrew Hill, Financial Times

'Once you read this book, you'll never look at yourself, your organisation, or your world quite the same way.' Daniel H. Pink

'This is a first-rate book - based on an impressive mass of research, written in a lively style and providing just the right balance of intellectual seriousness with practical advice on how to break our bad habits.' The Economist

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"In this fascinating book, Charles Duhigg reveals the myriad ways in which our habits shape our lives. Do you want to know why Febreze became a bestselling product? Or how the science of habits can be used to improve willpower? Read this book." (Jonah Lehrer)

"Once you read this book, you’ll never look at yourself, your organisation, or your world quite the same way." (Daniel H. Pink)

"Absolutely fascinating." (Wired)

"This is a first-rate book – based on an impressive mass of research, written in a lively style and providing just the right balance of intellectual seriousness with practical advice on how to break our bad habits." (The Economist)

"Plenty of business books that try to tap into the scientific world manage to distil complicated research into readable prose. But few take the next step and become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception." (Andrew Hill Financial Times) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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An award-winning journalist reveals the secrets of why you do what you do - and how to change --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and author of The Power of Habit. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, he has received the George Polk, the National Academies of Science and other awards. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Most of the choices we make each day may feel like they are the products of well-considered decision-making, but they're not. They are habits. And though each habit means relatively little on its own, over time they have enormous impacts on our health, productivity, financial security and happiness.

People have puzzled over our habits for centuries, but it is only in the past two decades that neurologists, psychologists, sociologists, and marketers have really begun to understand how habits work - and more importantly, how they change.

In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times journalist Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries to explain why habits exist, and how they can be changed - to transform businesses, communities, and our lives. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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How did one ad-man take tooth brushing from an obscure practice to a daily routine across the globe?

How was an army general able to calm violent crowds with fast-food?

How did the swimmer Michael Phelps break a world record with his goggles full of water?

How did an untested CEO take a struggling company to the top of the Dow Jones by tackling worker safety?

How are advertisers able to identify and target pregnant women - often before they have told their families?

The answer is habits.

'Charles Duhigg masterfully combines cutting-edge research and captivating stories to reveal how habits shape our lives and how we can shape our habits. Once you read this book, you'll never look at your world in quite the same way.'

Daniel H. Pink, author of #1 New York Times bestselling Drive and A Whole New Mind --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornerstone Digital; 19th edition (5 April 2012)
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My name is Charles Duhigg, and I'm a reporter for The New York Times. I'm also the author of The Power of Habit, about the science of habit formation, as well as Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Productivity in Life and Business (which is available for sale on Amazon on March 8, 2016!)

I've worked at the Times since 2006. In 2013, I was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for a series about Apple named "The iEconomy". Before that, I contributed to NYT series about the 2008 financial crisis, how companies take advantage of the elderly and national violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. (For those series, I won the National Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors' Medal, the National Academies' reporting award and other recognitions.)

But let’s be honest, you aren’t visiting this page so I can brag about series and awards. (Unless you’re my mom. Hi mom!)

I’m also a native of New Mexico. I studied history at Yale and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. I now live in Brooklyn with my wife and two children and, before becoming a journalist, was a bike messenger in San Francisco for one terrifying day.

I would love to hear from you. I'm at charles@charlesduhigg.com.

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Mark Pope

Maybe it's just me, but... (Updated)

Reviewed in Australia on 23 October 2017

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This is an update to my original review which is included below. I originally gave the book 2 stars, but have now changed that to 4 stars.

In my original review talked about how I felt the book didn't cover the "how to change" part of the title. I later discovered that it did in the Appendix to the book. I read this book in the form of an eBook on the kindle reader which requested the review before I got to see the appendix.

So. How to change is covered in the appendix, and it collects all the information together in a short example of changing a habit. This tied up the loose ends for me and I felt that I now had some tools to help me deal with all my unwanted habits.

In the end I would recommend the book, but be ready to stick at it through some of the chapters.

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I found this book in parts interesting and in parts a chore to read. For me the content dragged on at times, and a maybe in too much detail that was not needed.

At the end of it all I feel the "why we do what we do" was covered, but the "how to change" was not. Or at least "how to change" was not clear enough to me.

Maybe another read through the book will make a difference.

9 people found this helpful

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Nath P

Good the quality and the data fades in later chapters

Reviewed in Australia on 15 April 2018

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I like this book; its easy to read and its made me more aware of how much habits dictate so much of our behaviour. BUT I think it overreaches the data in later chapters when it looks at organisational and keystone habits . It simply doesn't have the data to state those big conclusions. the Amcol and Phelps stories in particular seem to be very narrow looks at far more complex situations... with other important elements being ignored

4 people found this helpful

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Owen Clouston

Insightful, helpful, instructive

Reviewed in Australia on 9 March 2020

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I really loved the layout of this book. It provided good evidence to support Charles' conclusions on how one can change their habits. Using real life examples. I would recommend this book to everyone and give it as a gift. A great and ready to read book with so much wisdom, advice and helpful instruction. I chose my rating because any book I'd give away is worthy of it.

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Nicolas

Good read! Wish it had more specifics on how to.

Reviewed in Australia on 25 October 2019

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Liked this book and the examples it has but personally I was expecting a bit more of a guidance of where to start with this given that there are so many habits and sometimes is even harder to actually figure out what you are doing wrong.

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Joel M

Best book on habits that i've ever read

Reviewed in Australia on 16 March 2019

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Have been fortunate enough to have read a number of books on habits and how they impact our lives and this is the best one i've come across. Very interesting scientific research included and practical ways to think about your own habits

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Savvysteve

Habit Is Good!

Reviewed in Australia on 3 April 2018

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Great understanding of what human intelligence is REALLY all about. Makes you realize just how lucky we are to have so much of what we do on "auto-pilot". But don't EVER make fun at a row of sheep wondering across a paddock.

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Farman

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Reviewed in Australia on 5 August 2021

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Nice book, it has a lot of examples but, it is hard to follow. A lot of facts and mixed-up cases. Quality is very low as well. Pages torn apart

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Michael Kane

Easy to get. Fun to read

Reviewed in Australia on 1 May 2018

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You can pretty much get the gist of it in the first third of the book. I did enjoy the stories and anecdotes making it an easy read to the end. It made me think a little differently about habits too. What more could a book ask for?

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Callum

Incredible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2018

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Believe me or not, but everything i’m Writing here is true.
I’m a 20 y/o pretty normal male, living in England
And this book has completely changed my life.
I was a regular smoker of both tobacco and cannabis, and the routine change taught in this book, and the methods of distraction taught in this book has helped me so much. I just want to say Thanks to Charles for making such an enjoyable book, which has taught me a lot about habits.
10/10 would read again.
Callum

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Liam Kelleher

25% incredibly useful, 75% drivel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2019

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“Self-help books” are like chain restaurants. There are too many of them, most of them are rubbish, but you can’t deny that they are useful.

Habit is a book that is extremely useful. We start off with some obvious but solid reminders of how what we perceive as excellence is habit. It’s not about “grit” as some other books would say.

Simply setting a reminder to go to bed and putting your trainers next to your bed every night is a better way to get exercising than watching motivational videos on YouTube. Humans look for the way way out. Make things easy. Create a reward loop and you will develop a habit.

After a solid start the book falters and diverges quickly. Stories become way too drawn out and - I would argue - not relevant to the reason most people buy this book. We get a long chapter on how supermarkets are monitoring our shopping habits via reward cards and can tell if your are pregnant from your food grocery list.

We have a chapter that massively drags on how a cassino kept a gambler coming back but stimulating her habit and reminding her of the rewards (debt in this case).

Like many self help books, you want to throw it out the window at times. But it’s got a solid thesis. I now keep my trainers next to my bed and have created a habit I never thought feasible. Thus the book is worth it’s weight of gold. It’s just got a core of lead to go along with it.

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Janie U

Surprised how interesting I found this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2018

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I bought this book so I could learn more about habits within an organisation. I quickly realised those habits were too deep and moved on so the book became less relevant. Picking it up again several months later, I see that it explores habits of individuals and society rather than just organisations so I decided that it might be interesting.
Quickly I found myself engrossed by the ideas explored in this book. Lots of examples and research is examined to look at how habits form and how they can be changed.
The book is split into three sections - individuals, organisations and society in general. I found the first two sections extremely engaging but thought that the society narrative was slightly less well defined and held my interest less.
Very cleverly, real people are used to prove theories and familiar companies are used as examples of habit changes.
I was surprised how interesting I found this book and have talked about it to various people whilst I was reading.

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Absolutely Fascinating

Reviewed in India on 12 May 2018

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Habit is a choice that we deliberately make at some point and then stop thinking about it, but continue doing, often every day. Author in this book examines why some people and organizations struggle to change while others seem to rediscover themselves by building a compelling argument around the power of habits.

This book is divided into three parts. Each part explains a different aspect of why habits exist and how they function.

The examples used in this book are so powerful and relevant that reader will feel a lot of wow moments. This is one of the books which we need to read again and again.

145 people found this helpful

JoshMcD

Typical pop-psychology bloviating.

Reviewed in the United States on 17 February 2019

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I was looking for something more substantial, but this very much a run of the mill, formulaic pop-psychology book. Buying it is not necessary. Essentially the book says "when you are triggered to do a bad habit, recognize that trigger and do a good habit in its place." There; you just read the book.

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