Name: Hello, Habits
ISBN: 9781324005582

Fumio Sasaki

The internationally bestselling author of Goodbye, Things shares insights and practices to show how ordinary people can use his principles of good habit-making to improve themselves and change their lives.

A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life

Hello, Habits

BC Hark

According to a study conducted by the Japanese government, the level of our happiness is said to decrease when we have more than seven free hours in a day. 

I read Sasaki's "Goodbye, Things", which I really enjoyed. This book seemed to be overly embedded in how personal habits could somehow translate to his audience. Anecdotes can help, but I do not think the format was particularly compelling, nor did many of the anecdotes seem to apply easily at least to me personally. I did not find the contents that useful. The tally app maybe. Otherwise Sasaki relied on Charles Duhigg's work, the copious quotes from the book made me wonder if that book would be a better read than this. It was almost as if Sasaki was looking for a topic and just chose something broadly applicable to everyone, but his heart did not really sing in this work nearly as much as his previous one. 

Hello, Habits A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life