Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
18 reviews
qteabeans's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, and Classism
jessi_c's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror and Blood
Minor: Medical content
mild/moderate trigger warning for anyone who has a phobia with eyes/eyeballsclaudia_moreira's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
audreyxine's review against another edition
3.0
You can tell the author is an athlete. There are lots of sports metaphors and references to losing weight. I was not a fan of how losing weight and restricting calories were always referred to as positive goals- it can be reductive and harmful to do this. While the simplicity of this book is a big strength, the world is not always so black and white.
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Injury/Injury detail
abijoyceshaw's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
reading_leaf's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Eating disorder and Injury/Injury detail
the_robyn's review against another edition
4.0
That said, there's a couple things I didn't love - the incessant self-promotion, where the author promotes his blog and newsletter in what feels like every chapter (and they're short). I also didn't love his insistence on how missing a habit twice is apparently a complete disaster!? Anyone with a chronic condition, or, I guess, simply a life where sometimes your days don't all look the same, can attest, this doesn't always work, as much as you want it to. If your bike has a flat or your car breaks down on your way to the gym, or your kid's sick or you're sick or a family member needs help, I'd venture most people would prioritize helping with / fixing those things rather than adamantly trucking on with their habits because a guy said so in a book, or that's how you get to be "successful". a) life happens, and b) not everyone has the freedom to design every single one of their days around a very specific routine they can lay out for themselves.
Oh and, for the love of everything holy, DO NOT give your passwords to other people so they can "reset them for you every week" to hold you accountable. How anybody comes up with a suggestion like that is beyond me.
Also steer clear of at the very least the intro chapter if you don't like to read about injury/medical details, since there was a fair bit of that in there.
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Addiction, Body horror, and Eating disorder
julialudovici's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content
sevensableyes's review against another edition
4.5
The writing is easy to follow, it's repetitve (as most self-help books are) but it doesn't feel boring.
The main point that stuck with me: "just show up". I find myself repeating that phrase whenever I need to start a task I have no energy for. It's a small thing, but it's really helpful.
I'm looking forward to revisiting this in this book and taking more notes.
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content
Content warning only applies to the introduction.katievh's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Medical trauma and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism and Fatphobia