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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything Audio CD – MP3 Audio, March 17, 2020
The world's leading expert on habit formation shows how you can have a happier, healthier life: by starting small.
Myth: Change is hard. Reality: Change can be easy if you know the simple steps of behavior design.
Myth: It's all about willpower. Reality: Willpower is fickle and finite, and exactly the wrong way to create habits.
Myth: You have to make a plan and stick to it. Reality: You transform your life by starting small and being flexible.
BJ Fogg is here to change your life - and revolutionize how we think about human behavior. Based on 20 years of research and Fogg's experience coaching more than 40,000 people, Tiny Habits cracks the code of habit formation. With breakthrough discoveries in every chapter, you'll learn the simplest proven ways to transform your life. Fogg shows you how to feel good about your successes instead of bad about your failures. Whether you want to lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or be more productive each day, Tiny Habits makes it easy to achieve.
Already the habit guru to companies around the world, Fogg brings his proven method to a global audience for the first time. Whether you want to lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or exercise more, Tiny Habits makes it easy to achieve.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAudible Studios on Brilliance Audio
- Publication dateMarch 17, 2020
- Dimensions5.25 x 0.5 x 6.75 inches
- ISBN-101713508214
- ISBN-13978-1713508212
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BJ FOGG is the founder and director of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford. In addition to his research, Fogg teaches Boot Camps in Behavior Design for industry innovators and also leads the Tiny Habits Academy helping people around the world. One of Fortune’s “10 New Gurus You Should Know,” he lives in Northern California and Maui.
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- Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.5 x 6.75 inches
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BJ Fogg, PhD, founded the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University. In addition to his research, Fogg teaches industry innovators how human behavior really works. He created the Tiny Habits Academy to help people around the world. He lives in Northern California and Maui.
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Tiny Habits is a Game Changer
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2020This book is VERY good. One of the best nonfiction books I've ever read (I’ve lost count, probably over 1,000 books).
It doesn't change the fact that there are some pros and cons. I'll share both sides of the coin.
First, a few
PROS
1. Fogg Behavior Model
This is a brilliant concept, and it deserves to be taught in primary school. In the first grade of primary school.
It's simple. It's intuitive. It isn't an academic theory, but it describes reality because it is based on observations more than on ruminations.
The chart of the model and several sentences explaining how it works are worth the price of the book, and the typo (see below in the CONS section) be damned.
2. Covers All the Angles
Tiny Habits tells the whole story of habits, from underlying principles of repeating the behavior to breaking bad habits and group cooperation in developing new habits.
This is the MOST complete book about habits I've read, and I read them all.
Read this book and you will learn how people actually change their behavior, why it makes tremendous sense to start small rather than big, how to grow your tiny habits into massive action, and how those small activities will result in huge results in the end.
I love this book! It says all I've been trying to convey to the public for years. It also says it very well. The explanations are easy to grasp. Tiny Habits is very well written. Which is the next pro...
3. Stories
I was totally impressed by the way BJ has woven stories of his students into the principles he teaches. I barely can tell where teaching ends and a story starts.
And all the stories are amazingly powerful. BJ has taught tens of thousands of people how to develop habits; he could cherry-pick some that make your head spin and your heart rate climb.
Powerful. Encouraging. Hope-giving. Authentic.
BJ Fogg has done something extraordinary in this book. He’s connected miniscule daily actions with big life transformations. What we mostly see in media are the stories of great deeds: losing 100 pounds in three months, creating a six-figure company in less than six months, etc. Tiny daily activities simply don't connote with enormous transformations.
Until you read Tiny Habits. Utilizing the stories is at the master level here.
4. Repetitive
Repetition is the mother of learning.
Repetition is the mother of learning.
Repetition is the mother of learning.
BJ Fogg seems to know this very well. There is a lot of iterative repetitions of everything he teaches in the book.
Yet, it's not annoying at all. I noticed the repetition often, especially in the charts and images illustrating the process, but it didn't bother me one bit. I'm impressed.
CONS
1. The Flaw
The main con of the book is a piece of dubious info that simply doesn't fit this awesome book. One of the chapters is titled "Emotions Build Habits."
In the very same chapter there is a sentence:
"For too long people have believed the old myth that repetition creates habits."
BJ Fogg champions the idea that your attitude is more important than consistency. And he does it in an ugly style, which is another con.
I know where he comes from. Millions of people have forced themselves to follow some diet for a month or a quarter-year, and then they abandoned it and never came back. Repetitions alone don't create a habit. But tens of millions of people have felt very excited about changing their habits, didn't force themselves, weren't consistent, and ended up without a habit in the exact same way.
Repetitions alone aren't a silver bullet. Emotions alone aren't a silver bullet either.
I found an ideal sentence describing what the author meant, the one which I agree 101% with:
"Emotions make behavior more automatic."
This is the main focus of this chapter, and deriding repetitions, tracking, and streaks was a huge mistake and throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
2. Zealotry
I don't think any author is free of this. BJ Fogg’s ideas are truly brilliant, but stating some utterances like they are dogma tickles me in a bad way.
I noticed it only once in the book, but it left a foul taste. It was in the fragment about repetitions:
"Some of today's popular habit bloggers still talk about repetition or frequency as the key. Just know this: They are recycling old ideas. They have not done groundbreaking research."
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater and pretending it's a good thing to commit.
First, this paragraph was totally unnecessary. Second, in my ears "groundbreaking research" equals inerrancy and people who haven't done such research are inferior. How come?
Those “popular bloggers” don't just spill their words on the internet. They write from experience. I’ve coached over 100 people in habit formation, and I did it according to BJ Fogg's model. Repetition works. Period.
Then you can add some qualifiers: that it doesn't work alone or that if your emotions are working against you it's very hard to create a habit despite repetitions.
But in general, repetitions work.
Don't get me wrong. You may think after this con that the author is some kind of self-righteous monster. That's far from the truth. BJ Fogg is an awesome guy. I've been following him for years.
His accomplishments are undeniable.
He has great bragging rights.
I simply say belittling others is not his style and it doesn't fit this awesome book. The same with fighting timeless concepts that have been proven to work in practice countless times.
3. Celebration
This is my biggest takeaway from the whole book. I bought "Tiny Habits" to repay BJ Fogg for his awesome job.
I've already studied the concept of tiny habits. I went through his free course with success. I've been writing about his concepts for several years. Apart from very interesting stories about the author and his clients and students, there was nothing new in the book for me.
Except for celebration, that is.
I mean, when I did the Tiny Habits course a few years ago, I read about celebration and I discounted it. I never truly implemented this element into my habit development or my coaching. Big mistake.
Why did I put it as a con? Because it's articulated in the book only halfway into it!!
What is more, the author is clearly aware of the importance of featuring this tip:
"I would train you in celebrations before teaching you about the Fogg Behavior Model, or the power of simplicity, or Anchors, or recipes for Tiny Habits."
So, why the heck didn't he?!?!
BJ Fogg knows it's important. For a habit expert like me, it's the biggest takeaway. And he hid this feature in the middle of the book.
4. Typo
The last con is on the publisher. English is not my first language. I'm unaware of most grammatical errors. I usually am not annoyed by a few typos here and there. I'm an author, and I know how close to impossible it is to eliminate all typos from a manuscript.
That is, until I read "bestto" in a Kindle book for which I paid almost $17! And I know that a poor author won't get even $5 of it because he is robbed by a traditional publisher whose products are so perfect, and so above the "poor quality" self-publishers' books (like 5x above, as their prices are).
C'mon! My word processor noticed this typo! Drop the price to a reasonable level, or do the perfect job you are paid for.
Rant over! Sorry.
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If you've thought for a moment that the above cons make Tiny Habits hardly readable or the book is not so good, that's a wrong impression.
I wrote in such length about cons because I deeply care about this book's success. It is absolutely fantastic. And here are more reasons that make it so, let's go back to PROS:
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5. Personal
I hate the guts of most traditionally published books. They are bland, tailored to speak to a general audience, and...bland.
Tiny Habits is not so. The author wasn't castrated out of his voice. BJ Fogg shares in by-the-way matters that he is gay at the very beginning of the book. He shares plenty of smaller stories from his life related to habit building and behavior design. I enjoyed those tidbits a lot.
But he also shares the deeply personal story of his nephew’s suicide and his family dynamics.
So, a reader can not only learn from practical applications of his model and tiny habit framework from his example, but can relate to him on a personal level.
Tiny Habits is a lot of things, but it's not bland.
6. Group Setting
Another unique trait of Tiny Habits is that it teaches how to create new habits in a group setting—in a family, company, or team. In the same methodical way in which the author explains how to build individual habits, he also explains how you can help others change.
What is more, he describes two paths: the path of a Ringleader and the path of a Ninja. The Ringleader is a person with the authority to lead others (father, CEO, manager, coach, and so on).
But when people resist the change despite your formal authority or if you are not a person in power, you can still help others by walking the Ninja path. Which, by the way, I found very helpful. Most people hiss at the sound of the word "change" like a devil at the sight of holy water.
Summary
Tiny Habits is so good that I cannot properly articulate it. Just ignore the one idiocy that emotions build habits and repetitions don't, and you can absorb the rest with your whole mind and soul.
This is the book that explains everything about habits.
This is the book that teaches you the simplest system.
This is the book that makes your personal changes not only possible, but totally doable.
This is the book that inspires you to take bold (but tiny!) action.
This is the book that helps you feel successful from day one.
This is the book.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2020I read a lot of business and self help books, including many that I like and have applied on building and changing habits. I looked at Tiny Habits several times and didn’t order it, thinking I didn’t need another book on habits and change. I heard BJ speak on a couple of podcasts and thought, I like how simple the concepts are and they make sense ... but again I didn’t order the book because I had way too many other books to read still. Somehow, though, the book and BJ Fogg kept showing up for me so I finally decided I needed to buy the book (funny thing, because I order so many books every month that I don’t know why I even deliberated so long about this).
The book arrived & I was intrigued by the cover so I immediately flipped through the book and was totally pulled in by the layout ... the font, the colors, the page covered with “tiny habits,” the models, the appendix. Even though I had several other unfinished books I was actively reading & enjoying, I put them aside to read Tiny Habits. I got hooked from the Introduction and read more and more each day (needing to take breaks to practice the exercises and REFLECT on everything BJ shared).
I have been so moved by everything about the book. I’m still working on learning and practicing the models but I’m spreading the word about Tiny Habits to everyone I can and I ordered copies of the book for my kids even before I finished it. I’m excited to embrace these practices to not only improve my life but to help others around me, too.
Thank you so much, BJ (I feel like I know you personally from your writing), for writing this wonderful book and sharing your inspiring methods to change ourselves, help others to become their better selves, and ultimately make our world better!!!
P.S. I don’t usually write reviews so this says how truly inspiring reading Tiny Habits was for me.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2020I was actually reading another book on habits when I stumbled on BJ Fogg's work. At first it seemed too simplistic, but he offered some free resources for people who pre-ordered his book. The resources were helpful and I used them a little bit in trying to change my morning routine. Since retiring, I hadn't had much routine in my life. Sometimes I got up at 9 and others at noon. Sometimes I went to bed at 11:30 and others at 3 am. I knew that it was throwing off the rest of my routines. Eating -- Sharing activities with friends -- Getting my TO DO list done. In January I received the book and enjoyed reading it. Once again, BJ directed people to his website where I found a lot more resources to make things happen. For the first time in years, I got up every day at 8:30 am. I made my bed. I did my PT exercises. (My PT was amazed at the results!) I spent a few minutes meditating and did a little dance. (An important part of changing things.) The website offered a free five day class in setting up tiny habits - it helped me clarify some other things I wanted to do. I joined a 10 week program BJ offered to orient readers to his approach. It concludes tomorrow and I've gotten a lot out of reviewing each chapter. I was happy. Then, Coronavirus arrived in the US! As someone who has dealt with an anxiety disorder for most of my life -- I could only think about dying and feeling out of control in the world. But, BJ is a "giver." Almost immediately he started a series of sessions on Zoom that helped with various aspects of dealing with all the complications that have come with this pandemic. He has lead some himself and coaches he has trained from all over the world have done others. I stopped feeling alone. I adopted some habits I explored attending the web sessions. Seeing others over Zoom gave me more of a connection. It was a really positive experience. I encourage you to get the book, go to the website and feel happier and more in control. Many of the sessions were recorded and others are still being held. Wonderful experience, wonderful read and wonderful man.
Top reviews from other countries
- Lisa LeppanenReviewed in Canada on August 17, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Very easy to apply to real life
An easy read. After having read only a few pages of this book, I have already made changes and new habits. The guidance makes sense and it is written in a way that is easy to apply to your life today. I look forward to finishing the book and making life long habits.
- DacianaReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I read about personal change
I know there's lots of other books out there on the topic of habits and change but this one is a real game changer for me. It explains the components of change and how they contribute to the changes we want to make. I always thought I couldn't change because my motivation levels are never high enough, especially when imposed by others. This book explains how habits really work. Thanks to this book I am making small changes every day so much easier and stress free.
Now I'm seriously considering taking up your course. Thank you for writing this book!
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LotteReviewed in Germany on November 13, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr gutes Buch
Gefällt mir sehr gut. Macht einen Unterschied.
- Vishakha KhetrapalReviewed in India on January 2, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on Habits I've read so far
The book 'Tiny Habits' is based on the ground-breaking research on Habits by Stanford Prof. BJ Fogg. The book provides an in-depth yet easy-to-read understanding of the science behind habits. It goes on to suggest practical strategies and tools to inculcate any new habit or get rid of an undesirable one. Written in a conversational style with plenty of examples from the author's own life and of several others who adopted the Tiny Habits Method, the book is an interesting read. I'm glad I picked it up.
- Rosemary FranciscoReviewed in Brazil on May 22, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
The book brings the model and explains how human behavior works and how it can be designed for change. It is a wonderful reference with a variety of guidelines and resources. Thanks, BJ Fogg, for share with us this pearl!