“What are the best books about Habits?” We looked at 92 of the top books About Habits, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 23 titles, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Habit” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 50+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
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To uncover the secret to successful personal change, three acclaimed psychologists studied more than 1,000 people who were able to positively and permanently alter their lives without psychotherapy. They discovered that change does not depend on luck or willpower. It is a process that can be successfully managed by anyone who understands how it works.
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective methods for conquering procrastination and accomplishing more. This new edition is revised and updated throughout, and includes brand new information on how to keep technology from dominating our time.
How do successful companies create products people can’t put down? Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging. Hooked is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder—not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior.
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. Ranging from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation, they cover such diverse topics as the nature of moral virtue, human rationality, divine providence, and Marcus’ own emotions. But while the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, in developing his beliefs Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection of extended meditations and short aphorisms that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers through the centuries.
We humans tend to get in our own way time and time again—whether it comes to not speaking up for ourselves, going back to bad romantic partners, dieting for the umpteenth try, or acting on any of a range of bad habits we just can’t seem to shake. In Rewire, renowned psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, PhD, reveals exactly why our bad habits die so hard. We have two brains—one a thoughtful, conscious, deliberative self, and the other an automatic self that makes most of our decisions without our attention.
Create Indestructible Habits: Learn the Proven Skills of Forming Good Habits That Stick Have you had trouble in the past sticking to your goals and resolutions? Want to learn a new skill, start an exercise program, or eat a healthier diet? You have the intelligence and desire to improve your life. But there’s one thing missing — the ability to stick to a habit until it becomes natural and automatic. If you’ve had trouble developing new habits in the past, it doesn’t mean you’re lazy or incapable. You just need to learn the science-backed skills proven to keep you on track until your habit is part of your daily life — for as long as you wish. A Solid Plan + Small Steps + Accountability = A Brand New Habit The first step toward shaping a sticky habit is creating your personal habit plan. You can’t dive in headfirst and launch a new habit full force. You need to carefully prepare in advance, using the Sticky Habits six-step method to ensure your success. With this method, you’ll start with baby steps that are so easy and painless, it won’t feel like effort. You’ll have no excuses to “forget” to practice your habit or give up too early. This simple, comfortable method is coupled with solid accountability to support your efforts and help you stay motivated even after the initial thrill of starting something new wears off. As you practice your habit every day, you’re actually creating new neural pathways in your brain, supporting your real-world efforts.
Our willpower is limited, yet we rely on it every day to get our tasks done. Even if we build willpower slowly over time, it’s never enough to reach all of our goals. The solution lies in habit creation, the method by which we transform hard tasks into easy ones, making them automatic and independent of our will power. Each of us has millions of habits, in how we do our work, interact with others, perceive the world, and think about ourselves. Left unexamined, these habits are just as likely to hinder our progress as they are to push it along. Without a deliberate system for building habits, we become our own worst enemy. Superhuman by Habit examines habit building in depth. It covers the principles and philosophies of habit building, as well as the practical nuts and bolts implementing those habits. The second half of the book is dedicated to specific habits in every major area of life, covering the pros and cons of each, the path to implementing them, and specific notes about each one.
No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you’re serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want.
A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so tenacious and how we can learn to conquer them We are all vulnerable to addiction. Whether it’s a compulsion to constantly check social media, binge eating, smoking, excessive drinking, or any other behaviors, we may find ourselves uncontrollably repeating. Why are bad habits so hard to overcome? Is there a key to conquering the cravings we know are unhealthy for us? This book provides groundbreaking answers to the most important questions about addiction. Dr. Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has studied the science of addictions for twenty years, reveals how we can tap into the very processes that encourage addictive behaviors in order to step out of them. He describes the mechanisms of habit and addiction formation, then explains how the practice of mindfulness can interrupt these habits. Weaving together patient stories, his own experience with mindfulness practice, and current scientific findings from his own lab and others, Dr. Brewer offers a path for moving beyond our cravings, reducing stress, and ultimately living a fuller life.
What if you could miraculously wake up tomorrow and any—or every area of your life was transformed? What would be different? Would you be happier? Healthier? More successful? In better shape? Would you have more energy? Less Stress? More Money? Better relationships? Which of your problems would be solved? What if I told you that there is a “not-so-obvious” secret that is guaranteed to transform any—or literally every area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible? What if I told you it would only take 6 minutes a day? Enter The Miracle Morning. What’s now being practiced by thousands of people around the world could perhaps be the simplest approach to creating the life you’ve always wanted. It’s been right there in front of us, but this book has finally brought it to life. Are you ready? The next chapter of your life—the most extraordinary life you’ve ever imagined—is about to begin.
Featuring a new introduction and a new section providing strategies to understand and deal with the role technology plays in procrastination today, THE NOW HABIT offers a comprehensive plan to help readers lower their stress and increase their time to enjoy guilt-free play. Dr. Fiore’s techniques will help any busy person start tasks sooner and accomplish them more quickly, without the anxiety brought on by the negative habits of procrastination and perfectionism.
The One Thing explains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the seven thieves that steal time, and leverage the laws of purpose, priority, and productivity.
This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and 24/7 demands on their time. “Combines the gritty toughmindedness of the best coaches with the gentle-but-insistent inspiration of the most effective spiritual advisers” (Fast Company). We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We’re wired up, but we’re melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job by laying out the key training principles and provides a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you to: * Mobilize four key sources of energy * Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal * Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do * Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals to make lasting changes Above all, this book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned.
In today’s world, yesterday’s methods just don’t work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen’s premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to: * Apply the “do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it” rule to get your in-box to empty * Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations * Plan projects as well as get them unstuck * Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed * Feel fine about what you’re not doing From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
Want to improve your life, but don’t have enough time? Right now you could easily think of a dozen ways to instantly improve your life. Odds are, these ideas will only take a few minutes apiece to complete. The problem? You might feel like there’s not enough time to do all of them. One solution can be found using the power of “habit stacking.”
After extensive original research and a decade as the world’s highest-paid performance coach, Brendon Burchard finally reveals the most effective habits for reaching long-term success. Based on one of the largest surveys ever conducted on high performers, it turns out that just six habits move the needle the most in helping you succeed. Adopt these six habits, and you win. Neglect them, and life is a never-ending struggle. We all want to be high performing in every area of our lives. But how? Which habits can help you achieve long-term success and vibrant well-being no matter your age, career, strengths, or personality? To become a high performer, you must seek clarity, generate energy, raise necessity, increase productivity, develop influence, and demonstrate courage. This book is about the art and science of how to practice these proven habits. If you do adopt any new habits to succeed faster, choose the habits in this book. Anyone can practice these habits and, when they do, extraordinary things happen in their lives, relationships, and careers. Whether you want to get more done, lead others better, develop skill faster, or dramatically increase your sense of joy and confidence, the habits in this book will help you achieve it. Each of the six habits is illustrated by powerful vignettes, cutting-edge science, thought-provoking exercises, and real-world daily practices you can implement right now.
When Stephen Covey first released The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the book became an instant rage because people suddenly got up and took notice that their lives were headed off in the wrong direction; and more than that, they realized that there were so many simple things they could do in order to navigate their life correctly. This book was wonderful education for people, education in how to live life effectively and get closer to the ideal of being a ‘success’ in life. But not everyone understands Stephen Covey’s model fully well, or maybe there are some people who haven’t read it yet. This is definitely true because we still see so much failure all around us. Now, I am not saying that by using Covey’s model, or anyone else’s model for that matter, you can become a sure-shot success, but at least we should have seen many more successes around us already judging by the number of copies the book has sold! So, where is the shortcoming? There are two main problems here, and we are talking only about the people who have read the book already. The first problem is that most people are too lazy to implement the ideals of Stephen Covey in their lives. They consider his masterpiece of a book as a mere coffee-table book or a book that you use for light reading when you are traveling and then forget all about it. They do not realize that this book contains life-changing information. Or, they take the information and do not make the effort to actually utilize it so that it becomes knowledge for them.
The surprising answers are found in Making Habits, Breaking Habits, a psychologist’s popular examination of one of the most powerful and under-appreciated processes in the mind. Although people like to think that they are in control, much of human behavior occurs without any decision-making or conscious thought.
Now updated with new research — the book that has changed millions of lives. After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset — those who believe that abilities are fixed — are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset — those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment. In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations.
Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources and no title or authority to back you up? Chip and Dan Heath, the best-selling authors of Made to Stick, are back with a ground-breaking book that addresses one of the greatest challenges of our personal and professional lives — how to change things when change is hard. In their follow-up book to the critically acclaimed international bestseller Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath talk about how difficult change is in our companies, our careers, and our lives, why change is so hard, and how we can overcome our resistance and make change happen. The Heaths liken the human mind to two distinct entities — the animal mind, or what psychologist Jonathan Haidt calls the elephant, and the logical brain, which Haidt describes as the rider. The elephant is instinctive; it acts on emotion. It likes gorging on Oreos and sleeping in. And it loves routines — doing things the same old way, every day. The rider is the planner and thinker. The rider obsesses about the future. He or she wants to stop eating junk food and stop hitting the snooze button. But it’s hard, because when the rider and elephant disagree on where to go, the rider usually loses. And that describes the essential tension between our primitive emotional brain and our high intellect, and helps to explain why changing how we behave is so difficult. The secret to making a switch is understanding this odd couple relationship.
I had experimented with personal development strategies for a decade. When I accidentally started my first mini habit—and the changes I made were actually lasting—I realized the prior strategies I relied on were complete failures. When something works, that which doesn’t work is exposed. The science in Mini Habits exposes the predictably inconsistent results of most popular personal growth strategies, and reveals why mini habits are consistent.
One of the world’s most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it. In Willpower, the pioneering researcher Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with renowned New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control. In what became one of the most cited papers in social science literature, Baumeister discovered that willpower actually operates like a muscle: it can be strengthened with practice and fatigued by overuse. Willpower is fueled by glucose, and it can be bolstered simply by replenishing the brain’s store of fuel. That’s why eating and sleeping- and especially failing to do either of those-have such dramatic effects on self-control (and why dieters have such a hard time resisting temptation). Baumeister’s latest research shows that we typically spend four hours every day resisting temptation. No wonder people around the world rank a lack of self-control as their biggest weakness. Willpower looks to the lives of entrepreneurs, parents, entertainers, and artists-including David Blaine, Eric Clapton, and others-who have flourished by improving their self-control. The lessons from their stories and psychologists’ experiments can help anyone. You learn not only how to build willpower but also how to conserve it for crucial moments by setting the right goals and using the best new techniques for monitoring your progress. Once you master these techniques and establish the right habits,
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year. An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones. What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives. They succeeded by transforming habits. In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.
# | Books | Authors | Lists |
(Books Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
24 | 30 Days – Change Your Habits, Change Your Life | Marc Reklau | Nerdy Creator |
25 | Alcoholics Anonymous | Alcoholics Anonymous | Goodreads |
26 | Awaken the Giant Within | Tony Robbins | Success Story |
27 | Being in Balance | Wayne Dyer | Nerdy Creator |
28 | Better Than Before | Gretchen Rubin | Write Change Grow |
29 | Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions | John C. Norcross | Develope Good Habits |
30 | Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation | Anytime Fitness | |
31 | DANCING IN THE RAIN | Mindful | |
32 | Decisive | A Life Of Productivity | |
33 | Drive | Daniel Pink | Lifehack |
34 | Easy Way to Stop Smoking | Allen Carr | Goodreads |
35 | Failing Forward: How to Make the Most of Your Mistakes | John C. Maxwell | Develope Good Habits |
36 | Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence | Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D | Develope Good Habits |
37 | Getting Results the Agile Way | A Life Of Productivity | |
38 | GRIT | Mindful | |
39 | Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious | Gerd Gigerenzer | Fast Company |
40 | Habits to Quit to Become More Successful | Near Me | |
41 | How to Stop Procrastinating: A Simple Guide to Mastering Difficult Tasks and Breaking the Procrastination Habit | Steve Scott | Develope Good Habits |
42 | Irresistible | Bakadesuyo | |
43 | It’s Not A Hard Habit To Break: How To Develop Good Habits For Success In All Areas Of Your Life | David Schmall | Goodreads |
44 | Linchpin | A Life Of Productivity | |
45 | LOVE + RADIO | Mindful | |
46 | Make It Stick | Peter C. Brown, Henry Roediger, Mark McDaniel | Lifehack |
47 | Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits: 14 New Behaviors That Will Energize Your Life | Joyce Meyer | Develope Good Habits |
48 | Mastery | Robert Greene | Success Story |
49 | Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income | Brian Tracy | Develope Good Habits |
50 | MINDFUL GAMES | Mindful | |
51 | Mindfulness In Plain English | A Life Of Productivity | |
52 | NeuroLogic: The Brain’s Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior | Eliezer Sternberg | Goodreads |
53 | No Sweat! | Anytime Fitness | |
54 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein | Fast Company |
55 | ON BEING WITH KRISTA TIPPET | Mindful | |
56 | Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell | Lifehack |
57 | Practical Paleo | Anytime Fitness | |
58 | QUIRKS AND QUARKS | Mindful | |
59 | Quit Smoking for Life: A Simple, Proven 5-Step Plan | Suzanne Schlosberg | Goodreads |
60 | Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change | Timothy D. Wilson | Develope Good Habits |
61 | Small Move, Big Change: Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently | Caroline L. Arnold | Fast Company |
62 | Smart Change: Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others | Art Markman PhD | Develope Good Habits |
63 | Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals | Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D | Develope Good Habits |
64 | Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success | Rory Vaden | Develope Good Habits |
65 | The 4-Hour Workweek | A Life Of Productivity | |
66 | The Art of Good Habits: Health, Love, Presence, and Prosperity | Nathalie Hermann | Develope Good Habits |
67 | The Art of Photography | Entrepreneur | |
68 | The Creative Habit | Twyla Tharp | Write Change Grow |
69 | The Disbelief Habit | Yong Kang Chan | Nerdy Creator |
70 | The Eat-Clean Diet: Fast Fat-Loss that Lasts Forever! | Anytime Fitness | |
71 | The Effective Executive | Peter Drucker | Lifehack |
72 | The Habit Blueprint | Patrik Edblad | Nerdy Creator |
73 | The Happiness Advantage | A Life Of Productivity | |
74 | The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun | Gretchen Rubin | Goodreads |
75 | The Healthy Habit Revolution: Create Better Habits in 5 Minutes a Day | Derek Doepker | Develope Good Habits |
76 | The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives | Shankar Vedantam | Goodreads |
77 | The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit | Amy Johnson | Goodreads |
78 | THE MYSTERY OF SLEEP | Mindful | |
79 | The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential..in Business and in Life | Live Happy | |
80 | The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy | Near Me | |
81 | The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k | Mark Manson | Write Change Grow |
82 | The Success Principles | Jack Canfield | Success Story |
83 | The War of Art | Steven Pressfield | Success Story |
84 | The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It | Kelly McGonigal Ph.D. | Develope Good Habits |
85 | Turning Pro | Steven Pressfield | Success Story |
86 | Unhooked: How to Quit Anything | Susan Shapiro | Develope Good Habits |
87 | UNPLUG | Mindful | |
88 | What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: And Two Other Short Guides to Achieving More at Work and at Home | Near Me | |
89 | Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life | Spencer Johnson | Develope Good Habits |
90 | Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More | Live Happy | |
91 | Zen Habits | Leo Babauta | Success Story |
92 | Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System | Near Me |
Source | Article |
A Life Of Productivity | The 10 best productivity books out there | A Life of Productivity |
Anytime Fitness | 4 Good Books to Help Kickstart New Healthy Habits |
Bakadesuyo | 5 Fascinating Books On How To Break Bad Habits – Barking Up The … |
Develope Good Habits | 28 Best Books on Building Good Habits (and Breaking Bad Ones) |
Entrepreneur | 3 Books to Help You Form Better Habits, Be More Creative and Think … |
Fast Company | 5 Books To Help You Build Better Habits – Fast Company |
Goodreads | Changing Habits and Overcoming Addictions (16 books) – Goodreads |
Lifehack | 11 Life-Changing Books To Help You Build Better Habits – Lifehack |
Live Happy | 10 Best Books to Boost Productivity | Live Happy Magazine |
Mindful | 6 Books to Get You Unhooked from Negative Habits – Mindful |
Near Me | 7 Best Books to Boost Your Productivity – Near Me Blog |
Nerdy Creator | Top 10 Best Books on Habit Formation | Nerdy Creator Bookclub |
Success Story | 10 Best Books to Develop Self Discipline | Motivation | SuccessStory |
Write Change Grow | 10 Best Books on Habits – Learn How to Break Old Habits and Create … |
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