A powerful beginning to understanding the habits that create our lives
Title: The Power of Habit
Author: Charles Duhigg
Year: 2012
Summary:In this research driven book Charles Duhigg brilliantly breaks down what habits are and the impact that habits have on our lives. Whether that's as an individual trying to break or create new habits to lead a better life, businesses implementing marketing strategies that create buying habits, an organisation trying to develop better cultural and performance habits or governments and world leaders understanding the social habits that cause people to act the way they do in large societies. This book is the perfect introduction to anyone who wants to better understand the habits that they are aware of, and to start to identify the ones that they never knew had control of them.
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justinbertuleit
21/10/2021Summary
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A book that I have re-read many times, which looks at discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. The examples that the author used to explain the habits in the book were relatable and perfect, I use many of these stories in my marketing company when chatting about buyer habits. Must read.
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Relatable to everyone!
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caindover
21/10/2021Summary
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A relatively simple read, this book discusses how companies and people build habits, and the power of habits. There werent too many tangible "how-to" while would have been more beneficial to the reader, however is easily interprited.
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denee
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This book has been one of the most influential books in my life. A well written masterpiece that enables the reader to better understand the forces that drive them to act in behave i particular ways, and how to change them. It can definitely be improved with a little more detail on how to apply what you learn from this book. But if it did have those extras, it would become a text book. I found each story is told with a fictional style which makes the information easy to digest, easy to relate to and very informative without becoming a group of excerpts from psychological studies. The perfect entry for anyone wanting to more about the habits that control their actions and how to change them.
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Well written and easy to digest
Bursting with information that can be understood and applied
It hits every area of your life. Personal, family, work, society, government
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Awareness
Noise
Achievement
The Happiness Project
Awareness
Mistakes were made (but not by me)
Anxiety
On becoming a person
Belief
What Freud really meant
Community
Civilisation and its discontents
Awareness
Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential-and Endangered
Achievement
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Achievement
Why we sleep
Awareness
The power of strangers
