Atomic Habits

My sister let me look over a copy of this while I was home for Christmas. I skimmed through all of the little parables / stories that serve as an intro to each chapter and focused on the author's assertions / descriptions. There is a lot of basic behavioral theory here, a lot of CBT. It's packaged in a very approachable way and I like the graphics / tables that are set out. I particularly liked “Goodhart's Law” — the notion that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

The book does have the common self-help scaffolding: start with a parable/anecdote/story, move into a basic description of a principle/method, apply the principle/method to the anecdote, then summarize. This makes it feel a little like a textbook but it does make it very skimmable and easy to reference later.

I appreciated the detailed notes section in the back. That said, I think I'm learning that I prefer a bibliography.