"I’ve been waiting for someone to write this book, and Markham Heid is the ideal author to do it."

   - Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

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Good habits, it's often claimed, are the key to unlocking your best self. Optimize your routines, and you'll optimize your life. 

 

In The Habit Trap, award-winning journalist Markham Heid examines the problems with this popular approach to self-improvement.

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While our habits can help us, they can also constrain us. The more of them we have, the more fussy and inflexible we become. The longer we maintain a habit, the less able we are to see its flaws or pursue better alternatives.

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We’ve all heard what habits offer us. This is a book about what they take from us in return, and how we can re-balance our lives so that our habits work for us, not against us.

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Coming in 2027 from HarperCollins Publishers

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