The Power of Habit has been fascinating to me. It has helped me to understand how I operate and also how others operate. It is amazing how much of our behavior is dictated by processes far beneath our conscious mind.
I just finished it and don’t regret it, but I feel like it could have been a pamphlet as most of the book seemed like padding to me. I mean I admire Rosa Parks but it seems like a lot of time spent saying that Rosa Parks habits made the difference in that civil rights milestone. Same for the examples of people convicted or acquitted of their crimes based on habits.
Aside from reinforcing what I already knew that habits are really powerful, the concept of micro habits stuck out to me and I’m going to try the snowball and stacking approaches to starting positive habits (putting out shoes the night before as a tiny habit to kick start the big habit of running, etc).
I feel like I really just needed to find the right podcast and would get the same info.
This was my experience as well. I found the first few chapters, which discuss the neurology and fundamentals, to be very interesting. The part that extended beyond individual-level habits started to lose me.
