Atomic Habits is a book that should have been a long blog post. It's amazing how many self help book could be a pamphlet with 10 printed pages for more details.
That's probably how self-help books started. Short and to the point. But it's hard for people to take the steps necessary to change, so I can imagine a lot of people simply stop doing the steps laid out in the original pamphlet, thinking there's a 'better way', that's less inconvenient.
And so we get Self Help Book 2.0, now with a lengthy introduction describing all kinds of relatable issues that convinces you that this is the right book that seems to 'get' you as an individual. But beyond the motivational first chapter, the book still contains those hard-to-do-regularly steps and insists that you must change if your habits are to. So we end up dropping that as well, choosing instead to wait for the next book that makes all the right promises.
rchaud|3 years ago
And so we get Self Help Book 2.0, now with a lengthy introduction describing all kinds of relatable issues that convinces you that this is the right book that seems to 'get' you as an individual. But beyond the motivational first chapter, the book still contains those hard-to-do-regularly steps and insists that you must change if your habits are to. So we end up dropping that as well, choosing instead to wait for the next book that makes all the right promises.
xunn0026|3 years ago
There's so much filler in Atomic Habits it's amazing. I think 10 pages would be too much for what was actually covered.
I wonder if somebody actually did a good summary. It can't be too many pages, really.
jkmcf|3 years ago
Sounds like a research paper written for normals. :). Self-help Book 3.0?