Psychology · Similar reads
Books like The Power of Habit
The best books like The Power of Habit are Atomic Habits, Deep Work, and Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg is about habits, behavior change, neuroscience. 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.
- 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.
Shares habits and behavior change with The Power of Habit.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into habits.
Read the summary → - Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
BJ Fogg · Self-help
Tiny Habits is BJ Fogg's distillation of more than two decades of research at Stanford's Behavior Design Lab.
Shares habits and behavior change with The Power of Habit.
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- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
A kindred psychology read.
Read the summary → - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal · Business
Hooked is Nir Eyal's framework for designing products that people return to without external prompting.
A kindred psychology read.
Read the summary → - Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Roy Baumeister and John Tierney · Psychology
Willpower is social psychologist Roy Baumeister's synthesis of decades of laboratory research on self-control, translated into practical guidance by science journalist John Tierney.
Shares habits and behavior change with The Power of Habit.
Read the summary → - Mini Habits
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Stephen Guise · Self-help
Mini Habits is Stephen Guise's case for starting habits so small they are almost impossible to fail.
Shares habits and behavior change with The Power of Habit.
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.
Shares habits and neuroscience with The Power of Habit.
Read the summary → - Good Habits, Bad Habits
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Wendy Wood · Psychology
Good Habits, Bad Habits is social psychologist Wendy Wood's account of what decades of research actually shows about how habits form and change.
Shares habits and behavior change with The Power of Habit.
Read the summary → - The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Tali Sharot · Psychology
Tali Sharot's second book turns from how our own brains distort perception to how we can change what other people think and do.
Shares behavior change and neuroscience with The Power of 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.
Shares habits and behavior change with The Power of Habit.
Read the summary → - The Trust Factor
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Paul J. Zak · Business
The Trust Factor is Paul Zak's attempt to build an evidence-based case for why trust in organizations is not a soft management concept but a measurable biological phenomenon with hard consequences for performance.
Shares neuroscience and organizational culture with The Power of Habit.
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Books like The Power of Habit: quick answers
What are the best books like The Power of Habit?
The best books like The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg are Atomic Habits by James Clear, Deep Work by Cal Newport, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Power of Habit, such as habits, behavior change, neuroscience.
What should I read after The Power of Habit?
A natural next read after The Power of Habit is Atomic Habits by James Clear. Shares habits and behavior change with The Power of Habit. Other strong choices are Deep Work by Cal Newport, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
What books are similar to The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg?
The Power of Habit centers on habits, behavior change, neuroscience. Books with a similar feel include Atomic Habits by James Clear, Deep Work by Cal Newport, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
