Written by Charles Duhigg in 2012; The power of Habit is the bestseller of New York Times. Duhigg is a renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning and talented Journalist. His book is highly recommended for all ages as it matches the psychology books from the past and present era. It’s like the best package and worth reading book of the genre.
The book is divided into three parts. Part One explains a lot about the Habits of the Individuals and this part comprises of three chapters. The first chapter portrays the Habits loop, in which the writer has enlightened that how does the habits work and how our brain stimulates while we carry out our specific routine. The second chapter goes on describing the brain’s working on creating or developing a new habit and how something becomes our daily routine matter. Then the third and last part of this book illustrates that why our habits transform or why our habits modify?
The second part of the book is concerned about the best habits and the habits adopted by successful organizations. It explains that how SUCCESS becomes a habit for an organization and which and how the habits play an important role in achieving success. The third part of the book is related to the habits of the societies. The author says that societies become great or fall due to the practices of kind of habits they adopt. He has given examples in his book’s third part to illustrate that how the habits play a key role in the upbringing and stereotyping of the societies and communities.
This book emerged out as highly recommended; also, I enjoyed it. However, I have a few thoughts and opinions about it. Although, the author has done a great job of separating the kinds of habits into suitable sub-factions, as well as in showing how habits truly operate in the brain; there is one inadequacy: this book doesn’t particularly show you how to revolutionize any habits or how to bring change in the daily habits in order to be succeeded. For example, if he has explained about the good leadership of Starbucks; he hasn’t mentioned that how to overcome problems related to leadership habits in an unsuccessful organization.
References
Duhigg, C. (2012). The power of habit: Why we do what we do in life and business (Vol. 34, No. 10). Random House.
