I think for content like this there's a scale between mostly "feel good" fluff (i.e. Gary V stuff, imo) to mostly "useful" stuff (i.e. Atomic Habits, imo). But everything has a mixture of actionability and story-based fluff thrown in there entertainment/inspirational value.
In my opinion, the fluff gets you through the drier parts of the reads. But what you decide to actually take out of the book and action on - that's up to you.
You turned it into mere entertainment when you read but didn't take action, for example, clean up your desk to enable your habits to begin, as clearly described in the Atomic Habits book.
The good reads you'll probably need to note down and return to a few times to extract all the useful, concrete advice.