Badass Habits by Jen Sincero
Published 2020 · 272 pages · 60,000 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Self-Help, Psychology
How hard is Badass Habits to read?
Badass Habits scores 15 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 22 out of 100
- Sincero writes in plain, conversational contemporary English aimed at a broad audience. Its register sits close to Atomic Habits and Beach Read, with no specialized terminology to decode.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Sentences are short and chatty, in a direct self-help voice meant to be read aloud, as the audiobook shows. Grammar never makes demands on the reader.
- Abstraction: 30 out of 100
- Habits, identity and boundaries are concepts, but the book anchors them in interviews and a 21-day plan of concrete steps. It stays closer to the practical examples of Atomic Habits than to philosophy.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- The book is billed as easy to digest, and one reviewer finds much of it familiar from Atomic Habits. Ideas arrive at a gentle pace, with interviews and exercises spreading them out.
How Badass Habits is regarded
Badass Habits holds a literary regard score of 17 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.