Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

Book review for Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear. I rated it 3.5 stars. I hated on Atomic Habits when I first read it, as I felt it didn’t quite compare to The Power of Habit. Now doing a re-read 7 years laters, I can begrudgingly start to see its merits a bit more. Atomic Habit does solve the only criticism I had with Power of Habit - that although it does a good job of explaining the science behind habits, it did not have enough actionable advice. Atomic Habits has more than plenty of it, structuring the book’s chapters into the various ways you can start and stop habits. The author James Clear is quick to thank Power of Habit author Charles Duhigg for his work, and acknowledges that his book builds upon it. It reuses the same “cue - routine - reward” habit loop from Power of Habit, but renames it to “cue - craving - response - reward”. However where Power of Habit seems to be fairly well-backed by science and research, I…