Other books in a similar vein that I liked:

_One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way_ by Robert Maurer

_Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results_ by Stephen Guise

Both are short reads, and the Kaizen book is also in a nice small form factor that you can stick in your back pocket. These books emphasize the importance of making even the smallest change possible.

I don't know about that. I have the book here in front of me (Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit), and it seems like the whole thing can be summarized as:

Cue - Routine - Reward

With an additional 300 pages of weak, mostly theory-driven anecdotes about how corporations apply this at scale.

I'd be really interested to know how you applied this to your personal life.

Why don't you like video games or fiction anymore?

Waste of time. At least comparatively speaking.

Plus these get boring, I climb up the hedonic treadmill. Movies and video games get boring.

I can understand somebody not enjoying video games, but movies is a tough one for me. Does the same go for plays? If so, is there any narrative media you enjoy?

"History is crazier than fiction"

This year I read/listened to 30 nonfiction books in philosophy, History, and science. It's been extremely enjoyable and rewarding.

My best advice is to put down bad books after 20 or 30 pages.

Personally, I think John Lennon was on to something when he said "time you enjoy wasting was not wasted".

That said, I agree 100% about giving up on books early and often.

What author?

Charles Duhigg