The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

Description

Author: Duhigg Charles

Brand: Penguin Random House

Features:

• English
• Author: Charles Duhigg, Publisher: Random House
• Binding: Paperback
• Easy To Read

Package Dimensions: 32x197x280

Number Of Pages: 400

Release Date: 07-02-2013

Details: Product Description
There’s never been a better time to set new habits. This book will change your life.
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Why do we do develop habits? And how can we change them?
We can always change. In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg translates cutting-edge behavioural science into practical self-improvement action, distilling advanced neuroscience into fascinating narratives of transformation.
Why can some people and companies change overnight, and some stay stuck in their old ruts? The answer lies deep in the human brain, and The Power of Habits reveals the secret pressure points that can change a life. From Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps to Martin Luther King Jr., from the CEO of Starbucks to the locker rooms of the NFL, Duhigg explores the incredible results of keystone habits, and how they can make all the difference between billions and millions, failure and success – or even life and death.
The Power of Habit makes an exhilarating case: the key to almost any door in life is instilling the right habit. From exercise to weight loss, childrearing to productivity, market disruption to social revolution, and above all success, the right habits can change everything.
Habits aren’t destiny. They’re science, one which can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.
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‘Plenty of business books that try to tap into the scientific world manage to distil complicated research into readable prose. But few take the next step and become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception.’ ANDREW HILL, FINANCIAL TIMES
Review
Sharp, provocative, and useful. — Jim Collins

Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living.
The Power of Habit is an exception. Charles Duhigg not only explains how habits are formed but how to kick bad ones and hang on to the good. ―
Financial Times

Once you read this book, you’ll never look at yourself, your organisation, or your world quite the same way.

Absolutely fascinating. ―
Wired

Entertaining . . . enjoyable . . . fascinating . . . a serious look at the science of habit formation and change. ―
The New York Times Book Review

This is a first-rate book – based on an
impressive mass of research,
written in a lively style and providing
just the right balance of intellectual seriousness with practical advice on how to break our bad habits. ―
The Economist

I have been spinning like a top since reading
The Power of Habit,
New York Times journalist Charles Duhigg’s
fascinating best-seller about how people, businesses and organizations develop the positive routines that make them productive-and happy. ―
The Washington Post

In this fascinating book, Charles Duhigg reveals the myriad ways in which our habits shape our lives. Do you want to know why Febreze became a bestselling product? Or how the science of habits can be used to improve willpower? Read this book.

A fresh examination of how routine behaviours take hold and whether they are susceptible to change . . . The stories that Duhigg has knitted together are all fascinating in their own right, but take on an added dimension when wedded to his examination of habits. ―
Associated Press

Duhigg gives a compelling insight in to the world of subconscious behaviour. This is no homespun remedy, Duhigg’s observations have real, scientific gravitas. ―
Woman & Home

Inspiring stuff! ―
Counsel

The Power of Habit steps sideways into science and brain chemistry to back up its key message: that identifying and implementing keystone habits is the difference between success and failure, whatever your goals. So if you’re a procrastinator, or a sleeper-inner, pick it up – and see how quickly you can morph those habits into habitual success. When you get around to it, obviously. ―
Stylist

This fascinating book by a
New York Times journalist explores how people get stuck in a rut and delves into psycho