The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Published 2012 · 380 pages · 85,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science & Nature
How hard is The Power of Habit to read?
The Power of Habit 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
- Neuroscience terms clearly explained. Very accessible.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Abstraction: 25 out of 100
- Habit loop grounded in vivid case studies.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Research and narrative balanced effectively.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Three-part structure. Story-driven chapters.
- Symbolic density: 80 out of 100
- The habit loop as organizing framework.
- Ironic distance: 80 out of 100
- Earnest, practical, journalistic.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Clear framework for changing habits.
- Structural complexity: 18 out of 100
- Three parts: individual, organizational, societal habits.
How The Power of Habit is regarded
The Power of Habit holds a literary regard score of 41 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.