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February monthly round-up
February has been a habit-heavy month. This month, I posted 2 book summaries and 3 blog posts:
Book summaries
- Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
Blogs
- Problems with Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Atomic Habits vs Tiny Habits: Which is Better?
- Motivation, Morality and Demandingness A short post with some of my musings after comparing Atomic Habits and Tiny Habits.
Early next month, you can expect to see a summary of McMindfulness by Ronald Purser. Later in March, I will post another summary for Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks.
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