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Badass Habits: The Awesome Follow-Up to a 5,000,000-Copy Bestseller
23 takeaways to help you build great habits and ditch lame ones
This book is one of the follow-ups to Jen Sincero’s five-million-copy bestseller, You Are a Badass, which came out of nowhere to become one of the books I find myself recommending quite often.
Her style is warm and sincere, but there’s no doubt that she fought to get to where she is today, and so there’s also this hard-edged pragmatism alongside her earnest cheerleading, which lends her extra credibility.
One of the things she does quite well is work from first principles, meaning the most basic, foundational ideas (in this case, in the field of personal development), and then she builds everything on top of that.
Habits are sooo fundamental to self-improvement, and if you’re interested in making lasting changes in your life, it makes sense to focus your efforts where they’ll have the most leverage — where they’ll do the most good.
Sure, you can compare different productivity systems and exercise routines and “life hacks,” but that’s all surface-level stuff compared to your habits and your belief system. That’s where Jen Sincero focuses most of her efforts — especially in this book — and that’s why the ideas found here are so effective.
