Making Habits, Breaking Habits by Jeremy Dean

New thing today, finished the book Making Habits, Breaking Habits  -Why we do things, why we don't and how to make any changes stick by Jeremy Dean. The title sounded fabulous, but overall I felt it was lacking in the promise of "how to make changes stick" on the cover. It was a quick and easy read. Mainly it's a lot of essays about studies on psychology and how our habits work and what we do and what triggers us. A lot of it is fairly common knowledge stuff, at least to me. I didn't really learn a whole lot of new things about habits, although there were some good nuggets I'm going to share.

It delves into how our subconscious is actually influencing our daily habits, influenced by our environment and other factors. How our intentions cannot necessarily overcome some of the subconscious habits we have. It also talks about how small incremental habit updates are better than trying to do a complete makeover on things. Having a "if... then...." plan is helpful. Also just having reminders and environmental things to help trigger us to helpful behaviors are good. Being mindful was good. Overall some good stuff, but not wow-ing.

It was alright. I finished it in 3-4 nights reading through quickly. Like I said, easy enjoyable read, glazed over some parts, but talks about habits more than prescribes any good help with changing them. They are mentioned anecdotally and throughout, but it's all the common knowledge stuff we all know and have heard about, just all put together in this book. I'd give this a good read - maybe 6 or 7 out of 10.