Most books on habits keep repeating the same few ideas with endless examples. Also many strategies in these books are just anecdotes that may or may not work.

Here are five books on behavior change that are written by practicing scientists and are based on original research 🧵👇

Book #1: Tiny Habits: The small changes that change everything by B J Fogg

B J Fogg is a Behavioral Scientist and the founder and director of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford.

His tiny habits concept is one of the most significant breakthroughs in Behavior research in the last decade. Tiny Habits are also popularized with other names like Atomic Habits.

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Book #2: Hack your Habits: An Unusual Guide to Escape Motivational Traps, Bypass Willpower Problems and Accelerate your Success by Joanna Jast

This book is not just a disparate list of tips and tricks like many other books of this type but contains a very comprehensive step by step guide to build personalized and actionable plan for habit change backed by scientific research.

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Book #3: Good Habits Bad Habits: The Science of making positive changes that stick by Wendy Wood

Wendy Wood is a professor of psychology and has done some groundbreaking research on habit persistence and change.

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Book #4: How To Change: The Science of getting from where you are to where you want to be by Katy Milkman

Katy Milkman is a Behavioral Scientist and this book is packed with science based strategies for behavior change that work.

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Book #5: Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start by Steve Levinson and Pete Greider

Steve is a Clinical Psychologist and this books contains scientifically validated strategies for helping us follow through.

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TL;DR: Out of 100+ of habit change books, read these 5 to get scientifically validated strategies

• Tiny Habits by B J Fogg

• Hack your Habits by Joanna Jast

• Good Habits Bad Habits by Wendy Wood

• How To Change by Katy Milkman

• Following Through by Steve Levinson

Please drop a comment if you know any other great science backed behavior change books.

The Top 5 scientifically backed books on Behavior Change

Most books on habits and behavior change keep repeating the same few ideas with endless ex

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