What are your thoughts on this book? Some peolpe call it garbage(as much as every self-help bool out there) but can it be any useful?
Elastic Habits is better. It's the only system that has worked for me
david allen's "getting things done" is the og productivity shit
>>25324287Who has the better two-minute rule?>If it takes less than two-minutes, do it immediately>When starting a new habit, only require yourself to do two minutes of it
It's good. People only call it garbage because you have to actually apply it to get results.
>>25323819I've never met a self-improvement reader who had a life that I wanted.
here's how taking a baseball to the face will soup up your life
>>25323819Imagine expanding on the meaning of “Just do it.” for 300 pages
>>25323819but that book was already made can there really be a need for yet another popular top charts habit book? Whats next?
>>25323819I would blow my face off with a 12 gauage before I read a self help book
Just wake up at 5AM and go for a jog
>>25323819All of those books are absolute shit and most of them could be renamed to "Estoicism for retards".
Read The Universal Master Key by Franz Bardon.
>>25323819It's ok. Though the whole book can be sumarized in about 10 pages or less.I read it and I did'nt get much out of it. Unironically, I used Deepseek to create a new habit route based on the book (and other self-helf books), and the result from Deepseek is an actionable plan that has served me very well since then.
>>25323819>>25324262QRD isAtomic Habits by James Clear argues that lasting change comes from making behaviors obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying. Its central insight is that small improvements, repeated consistently, compound into significant results over time. The book emphasizes identity-based habits—focusing on becoming the type of person who performs a behavior rather than chasing specific outcomes. Systems, environment design, and habit tracking are presented as the primary levers for sustaining progress. In essence, the goal is to make desired habits nearly automatic and reduce reliance on motivation.Elastic Habits by Stephen Guise takes a more flexible approach. Instead of prescribing a fixed habit size, it encourages creating three versions of a habit: a minimum, target, and optimal level. This allows people to succeed even on low-energy days while still taking advantage of high-motivation periods. Whereas *Atomic Habits* focuses on consistency through environmental and behavioral design, *Elastic Habits* focuses on consistency through adaptability. Both books recognize that small actions drive long-term change, but *Atomic Habits* prioritizes building reliable systems and identity, while *Elastic Habits* prioritizes reducing failure by making habits flexible enough to fit changing circumstances.
>>25323819I admittedly never finished it. I found it to be a hard sell after reading chapter one. He talks about the swim team and how they won from their habits, etc. Then you look it up and years later it came out that they were doping. Just couldn't take the book seriously after that.
The smoking, asian hottie quarter jade recommending this book.
Just stop being a neurotic fag and do the shit you want to do. The people you admire and look up to wake up every day and put the work in because they don't have that mental barrier that you have. Be retarded and inherit the earth.
>>25323819As a book, it's obnoxious - Long anecdotal pausing interrupts any how-to section and they don't really feed into each other, more act as cheerleader sections to the actual purpose. I find that very offputting. As another anon said, the author gets some things wrong (>>25329133) which is always the case with these kinds of anecdotes, so he should have just stuck to expanding the method.
>>25329133>they were dopingIs that not a powerful habit?
>>25329133I think a lot of these self-help books that have anecdotal messages falls apart when you look up who or what they're referencing. They could be right but the fact they're wrong makes it harder to absorb the message.
>>25330731You could say this about almost any self-help book.A whole lot of fluff while the actual useful content could be summarized on one page.I do think the basic premise is sound.Moving away from goal based thinking >I want X. I need to get X by end of the month. etc.to>I'm a motherfucker who does X erry dayYou're more likely to actually consistently get results.That's about it.And oh, yeah, small and easy tasks are more likely to get done than gigantic, vague goals. So split everything into the smallest tasks you can think of and do them one at a time. But I'm pretty sure I've read that in some other book.
>>25323819Self help books are trash. They’re really only good for sounding smart to dumb people and that is the primary audience for this crap. I know this is all crap because I know what you actually need to do to get whatever it is you want and it isn’t a fun process taking a hammer and chisel to your spirit. You put the actual shit that works in a book and tell people “there’s other way” and most of those people will kill themselves to avoid doing it or kill themselves during it from the trauma being inflicted on their minds and identity. It’s better to sell them dopey magic systems which are basically rhetorical snake oil that allow them to basically placebo themselves into feeling productive until it wears off and they go buy another book with another system.
>>25330776give me your systemright nowRIGHT NOW
>>25323819I have yet to find one of these books that couldn't be losslessly condensed into less than 10 pages.
