Best Books On Habits: Become Someone You're Proud Of

The best books to break bad habits, and become someone you’re proud of.

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Doctor Fogg is a scientist who studies behavior. He once helped social media companies make their apps harder to put down. One of his students founded Instagram even.

But he disavowed those companies when he saw the ethical concerns. He created a new method called Tiny Habits. He created a coaching certification program, which I passed earlier this year.

And wrote a book about Tiny Habits. And oh boy, It had an outsized impact for a single book.

Because 99% of books on habits are pseudoscience. Most self-help authors are Ideaprenuers, their job is making inspirational quotes. Rather than accurate science.

Contrast that with a How-To-prenuer who shows you how to fix your problems. So why haven't you heard of them? How-To-Prenuer's specialized on helping people instead of marketing. So their work ends up obscure.

That's why I made the Smart Readers Test. It helps you find qualified authors who know their stuff. If you want to become someone you're proud of, you'll need it.

How the smart readers test is crucial for books on habits

Every book I list here took hours of research, to pass the Smart Readers Test:

1.               The book’s author must be a qualified expert.

2.               The book’s premise must be practical, and not theoretical.

3.               The book’s premise needs a direct connection the problem you’re trying to solve. 

My expert-driven list of books on habits

I excluded 99% of the books on habits out there. Many of them have no reference list, or if they do they’re citing trivial stuff like reddit posts. Or still citing BF Skinner, when science moved on from him decades go.

These three books give you the science-based tools to become ruthlessly consistent.

01              Tiny Habits: Fogg shows you how to Behavior Design your own life. And it doesn’t have to be a big change at first. Doctor.

02              You Are Worth The Work: The only other book about habits featuring Fogg’s science. The author helps readers who might be at a real low point in their life.

03              Don’t Shoot The Dog: We often reinforce the wrong habits in others, parents are really good at that. This book teaches you how to get out of that trap.