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Great concept, doesn't quite deliver
The author has a brilliant concept in achieving goals by starting with mini habits. But he spends so very much time explaining the research, the pitfalls of traditional habit formation, brain structure, motivation energy drain, and on and on. If you've read just one book or article on goal setting, you already know most of this. When, in the second half of the book the author begins to describe how to set mini goals, he gives step one, slides quickly over the most important part and goes straight to how to measure results. I actually got what I needed from the first few pages.
Advice to author: rewrite the book - spend no more than 1,500 words on the science. Use the rest of the first half of the book to describe *completely* how to follow your method. Use the second half of your book to give case histories or examples of how to apply your method in each of the quadrants of life: health, education, relationships, career...etc.
February 2014 · Kindle Store · verified purchase