Boni Aditya answers “Hi James - Can you tell us how this book...”

Gerrianne asked this question about Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones:

Hi James - Can you tell us how this book is different from The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg?

Boni Aditya Not really different - Only the Vantage point is different. Power of Habit is more like a text book or a reference book about habits and its research.…moreNot really different - Only the Vantage point is different. Power of Habit is more like a text book or a reference book about habits and its research. This book is written from the point of view of one persons suffering and his discovery of habits. POV is different, the rest is the same. I don't seen any extra value addition done by this book. The book also takes its elements from Hooked: How to build habit forming products. The concepts are all borrowed, though the author might have discovered them through independent research (I would like to give him the benefit of doubt), but I wish that the author did not include the part about the bat smashing his skull, it was painful to read! But I don't see any extra value addition, because I have already read those two books! This work is merely a touch feely, emotional derivative work of the more formal theories discovered in the power of habit and other pioneers!(less)

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