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Re:The Now Habit (2015) by reidrac on Thursday December 27, 2018 @11:04AM (#18770252)
That's an excellent summary of the book.

Someone bought me this a a gift, I can't remember who. I read it and, although it has some interesting ideas, it felt like there was no enough content and it repeated the same points over and over to fill space.

I didn't like how it was written. This is the only self-help book I have read, so I don't know if it is following some conventions of the genre (is this a genre?).

Overall I liked some of the core ideas, but not reading the book.

Re:The Now Habit (2015) by jskulski on Thursday December 27, 2018 @11:11AM (#18770296)
Sounds similar to the ones I've read. Good points, little else, repeated with anecdotes to substantiate the points. I like summaries of these.
Re:The Now Habit (2015) by cocacola1 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @01:10PM (#18771224)
> Overall I liked some of the core ideas, but not reading the book.

I’ve only read a few, but that describes them pretty well.