"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, Markham Heid examines all the problems with this popular approach to self-improvement. While our habits help us, they 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 the Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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