Self-help · Similar reads
Books like The Now Habit
The best books like The Now Habit are Deep Work, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, and Eat That Frog!. The Now Habit by Neil Fiore is about procrastination, productivity, anxiety. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Deep Work
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.
Shares productivity and habits with The Now Habit.
Read the summary → - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Mason Currey · Biography
Daily Rituals is Mason Currey's compilation of the working habits of 161 writers, artists, composers, philosophers, and scientists — from Beethoven to Darwin, Kafka to Freud, Maya Angelou to W.H.
Shares productivity and habits with The Now Habit.
Read the summary → - Eat That Frog!
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Brian Tracy · Self-help
Eat That Frog!
Shares procrastination and productivity with The Now Habit.
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- Atomic Habits
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James Clear · Self-help
Atomic Habits is James Clear's framework for how very small changes — habits so minor they seem to make no difference on any given day — compound into remarkable results over months and years.
Both dig into habits.
Read the summary → - The Willpower Instinct
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Kelly McGonigal · Self-help
The Willpower Instinct is based on Kelly McGonigal's popular ten-week science of willpower course at Stanford University's Continuing Studies program.
Both dig into habits.
Read the summary → - The Action Habit
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Alexander Heyne · Self-help
The Action Habit is Alexander Heyne's short, direct book about the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it.
Shares procrastination and habits with The Now Habit.
Read the summary → - The Power of Less
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Leo Babauta · Self-help
Leo Babauta's central argument is that doing less, not more, is the path to meaningful accomplishment.
Shares productivity and habits with The Now Habit.
Read the summary → - Solving the Procrastination Puzzle
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Solving the Procrastination Puzzle
Timothy A. Pychyl · Psychology
Solving the Procrastination Puzzle is Timothy Pychyl's short, research-grounded guide to understanding and overcoming procrastination.
Shares procrastination and productivity with The Now Habit.
Read the summary → - The Procrastination Equation
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Piers Steel · Psychology
The Procrastination Equation is Piers Steel's attempt to apply a decade of academic research on procrastination to a popular audience.
Shares procrastination and productivity with The Now Habit.
Read the summary → - Better Than Before
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Gretchen Rubin · Self-help
Better Than Before is Gretchen Rubin's synthesis of years of research and personal experimentation on habits.
Both dig into habits.
Read the summary → - Discipline Equals Freedom
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Jocko Willink · Self-help
Discipline Equals Freedom is Jocko Willink's compressed manifesto on the relationship between self-discipline and freedom — his central argument being that the two are not opposites but the same thing.
Both dig into habits.
Read the summary → - Do Less, Get More
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Shaa Wasmund · Self-help
Do Less, Get More is Shaa Wasmund's argument that most people's productivity problem is not a shortage of effort or time but an excess of wrong activity.
Both dig into productivity.
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Books like The Now Habit: quick answers
What are the best books like The Now Habit?
The best books like The Now Habit by Neil Fiore are Deep Work by Cal Newport, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey, Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy, Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Now Habit, such as procrastination, productivity, anxiety.
What should I read after The Now Habit?
A natural next read after The Now Habit is Deep Work by Cal Newport. Shares productivity and habits with The Now Habit. Other strong choices are Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey, Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy, Atomic Habits by James Clear.
What books are similar to The Now Habit by Neil Fiore?
The Now Habit centers on procrastination, productivity, anxiety. Books with a similar feel include Deep Work by Cal Newport, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey, Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy, Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal, The Action Habit by Alexander Heyne — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
