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Atomic Habits by James Clear. I work on a habit building platform so read almost all books and papers on habit building and behavioral science. This recent book by James Clear has summarized the key points of what's known about building and replacing habits. It's easy to read and most importantly - practical.

I am interested in these topics as well, can you share your top 5 resources besides Atomic Habits?

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Atomic Habits by James Clear. I work on a habit building platform so read almost all books and papers on habit building and behavioral science. This recent book by James Clear has summarized the key points of what's known about building and replacing habits. It's easy to read and most importantly - practical.

I am interested in these topics as well, can you share your top 5 resources besides Atomic Habits?

sure:

James Clear, the above author has the blog where he writes about habits extensively: www.jamesclear.com

Tiny Habits is a habit program created by Stanford Prof BJ Fogg - www.tinyhabits.com

21 Day Hero (shameless plug) - is a place where you start building habits through 21 day challenges. We're transitioning however to full-on habit building journey, through an app and other tools/programs - www.21dayhero.com

Selfication - http://www.selfication.com/ - is also a great blog in the behavioral science direction

Best apps out there is Fabulous, Spar!, Habitica, Pacifica and many others.

If you want this all in one - our team actually have this secret habit landscape map done, which includes all books, apps, researchers, blogs in the habit space. Haven't shared publicly yet. But can email it to you if you wish

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I am interested in these topics as well, can you share your top 5 resources besides Atomic Habits?

sure: James Clear, the above author has the blog where he writes about habits extensively: www.jamesclear.com Tiny Habits is a habit program created by Stanford Prof BJ Fogg - www.tinyhabits.com 21 Day Hero (shameless plug) - is a place where you start building habits through 21 day challenges. We're transitioning however to full-on habit building journey, through an app and other tools/programs - www.21dayhero.com S…

This is excellent, thanks a bunch! I'd love to have that list, can you email it to me please? https://aalhour.com/contact

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If you have taken some "intro to proofs" or "intro to abstract algebra" or "intro linear algebra" or any other such course where you've seen rigorous proofs, then Jay Cummings' "Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook" [0] is simply a phenomenal introduction to real analysis. It's a fast paced tour de force through rigorous analysis. I actually wrote a longer comment, but I had to invoke the names of other au…

Got any recommendation for those other intro ones with rigorous proofs? Teaching maths and looking to move from a physics background to more pure maths one.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

sure: James Clear, the above author has the blog where he writes about habits extensively: www.jamesclear.com Tiny Habits is a habit program created by Stanford Prof BJ Fogg - www.tinyhabits.com 21 Day Hero (shameless plug) - is a place where you start building habits through 21 day challenges. We're transitioning however to full-on habit building journey, through an app and other tools/programs - www.21dayhero.com S…

This is excellent, thanks a bunch! I'd love to have that list, can you email it to me please? https://aalhour.com/contact

sure, just did.

Re: Best book/paper you read in 2018?

#40
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (founder of Nike).

Hands down the best autobiography I have read. I personally learned a lot about how a brand is created rather than a business. How businesses were built even before VC capital was a thing. And how life is all about making tradeoffs.

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