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What are your thoughts on this book? Some peolpe call it garbage(as much as every self-help bool out there) but can it be any useful?
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Elastic Habits is better. It's the only system that has worked for me
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david allen's "getting things done" is the og productivity shit
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>>25324287
Who has the better two-minute rule?
>If it takes less than two-minutes, do it immediately
>When starting a new habit, only require yourself to do two minutes of it
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It's good. People only call it garbage because you have to actually apply it to get results.
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>>25323819
I've never met a self-improvement reader who had a life that I wanted.
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here's how taking a baseball to the face will soup up your life
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>>25323819
Imagine expanding on the meaning of “Just do it.” for 300 pages
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>>25323819
but that book was already made can there really be a need for yet another popular top charts habit book? Whats next?
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>>25323819
I would blow my face off with a 12 gauage before I read a self help book
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Just wake up at 5AM and go for a jog
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>>25323819
All of those books are absolute shit and most of them could be renamed to "Estoicism for retards".
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Read The Universal Master Key by Franz Bardon.
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>>25323819
It's ok. Though the whole book can be sumarized in about 10 pages or less.

I read it and I did'nt get much out of it. Unironically, I used Deepseek to create a new habit route based on the book (and other self-helf books), and the result from Deepseek is an actionable plan that has served me very well since then.
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>>25323819
>>25324262
QRD is
Atomic Habits by James Clear argues that lasting change comes from making behaviors obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying. Its central insight is that small improvements, repeated consistently, compound into significant results over time. The book emphasizes identity-based habits—focusing on becoming the type of person who performs a behavior rather than chasing specific outcomes. Systems, environment design, and habit tracking are presented as the primary levers for sustaining progress. In essence, the goal is to make desired habits nearly automatic and reduce reliance on motivation.

Elastic Habits by Stephen Guise takes a more flexible approach. Instead of prescribing a fixed habit size, it encourages creating three versions of a habit: a minimum, target, and optimal level. This allows people to succeed even on low-energy days while still taking advantage of high-motivation periods. Whereas *Atomic Habits* focuses on consistency through environmental and behavioral design, *Elastic Habits* focuses on consistency through adaptability. Both books recognize that small actions drive long-term change, but *Atomic Habits* prioritizes building reliable systems and identity, while *Elastic Habits* prioritizes reducing failure by making habits flexible enough to fit changing circumstances.
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>>25323819
I admittedly never finished it. I found it to be a hard sell after reading chapter one. He talks about the swim team and how they won from their habits, etc. Then you look it up and years later it came out that they were doping. Just couldn't take the book seriously after that.
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The smoking, asian hottie quarter jade recommending this book.
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Just stop being a neurotic fag and do the shit you want to do. The people you admire and look up to wake up every day and put the work in because they don't have that mental barrier that you have. Be retarded and inherit the earth.

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