He admits he “had never considered a master of the topic, but rather someone who was experimenting alongside his readers”. He’s basically a blogger who’s read about behaviour and motivation over the years, and found some things that work for him. Clear gives proper credit to people he has learnt from, including BJ Fogg.

They differ in their evidence base, intended audience, structure, specific advice and writing style.Ītomic Habits summarises prior research. Differencesįor two books about habits, they’re surprisingly different. Atomic Habits was published in October 2018 while Tiny Habits was published a year later in December 2019. The two books were also published around the same time. In fact, the print editions of both books are exactly 320 pages! I suspect Tiny Habits‘ word count is shorter, as it includes more “bonus” resources, pictures, etc, so makes for a slightly easier read. Atomic Habits even includes Fogg’s “Tiny Habits method” as one of its suggestions, though Clear calls it “habit stacking” and describes it slightly differently.īoth books are also quite short. Both also talk about how identity helps sustain behavioural change, though Atomic Habits focuses on this more. However, Tiny Habits places much greater emphasis on this. For example, both books discuss the importance of environment design and making habits easier so that you don’t have to rely on motivation. While both books give some of the same advice, they differ in terms of emphasis.

Atomic Habits claims that small changes “compound” ( I disagree), while Tiny Habits says they can grow or multiply. They even use the same metaphor about how habits are like small seeds that grow into strong trees. As such, both talk about the importance of small changes.

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