Written by Charles Duhigg in 2012, The Power of Habit is the bestseller of the 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 a book worth reading in the genre.
The book is divided into three parts. Part One explains a lot about the Habits of the Individuals, and this part comprises three chapters. The first chapter portrays the Habits loop, in which the writer has enlightened us on how habits work and how our brain stimulates while we carry out our specific routine. The second chapter describes how the brain works on creating or developing a new habit and how something becomes part of our daily routine. Then, the third and last part of this book illustrates why our habits transform or why our habits modify.
The second part of the book is concerned with the best habits and the habits adopted by successful organizations. It explains how SUCCESS becomes a habit for an organization and how 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 and the kind of habits they adopt. He has given examples in his book’s third part to illustrate how habits play a key role in the upbringing and stereotyping of societies and communities.
This book emerged as highly recommended; I also 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 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.
