Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

 

Since "7 habits", I think I never found a book as good as the theory mentioned in 7 Habits. The said 7 habits served me well for the past 20 years to becomes the highly effective people as claimed by the late Stephen Covey. Now, I am into this atomic habits. The topic itself sounds appealing in the first place. Secondly, I was in a forum on books and this book keep on bombarding my fb wall in the said forum. So, here I am with a book that usually would not appear in my book shelf. 

At the end... I did not finish this book. This is a boring and dull book. Basically, the four concepts are too simple to practice and I humbly think that this is how I practice my life for the past 20 years. As such, this book does not deliver what I want and I ended up gave up half way. 

My expectation on this book was high in the first place. After all, it was highly recommended by all friends in my forum. The so called "atomic" habits are nothing new under the sun. We had this sort of ideas everywhere and perhaps the author only did his best to use the right words to "upgrade" the whole concept. For example, I hate the repeating words of "Laws" being highlighted throughout the book. To me, it is a "principle" at most! Law??? No way... 

Finally, this book could have been written in less than 100 pages. There are a lot of repetition and the author mumbling the same stuff over and over again. In fact, this book can easily be sum up by reading the chapter summaries. So, for a full rating of 10, I am going to rate this book at 1. The idea is good (nothing special though), but it is just too wordy to finish it up... 

塞北三朝：金

 

这是袁老师塞北三朝系列的最后一本。塞北三朝理论上，金应该是最精彩的一本。至少，金人的确在之后成立了影响中华时代的满清帝国。好吧，让我们再次踏上塞北三朝之旅吧。。。

金的历史的确时比西夏和辽有趣多了。至少，金的澎湃英雄史甚至是荒唐事迹也比辽和西夏有过之而无不及。但是，很耐人寻味的是。。。袁老师的这一系列塞北三朝始终不是我喜欢的历史书籍。一直以来，袁老师的书籍我是爱不释手的。还没开始塞北三朝时，我是非常期待的。但是，一连啃掉了三本书籍后，除了书的结尾（袁老师的总结永远不让读者失望），我还真的不是很有印象里头的精彩内容。

或许，塞北三朝的历史真的不是我的那杯茶。中国少数民族肯定有他们的贡献。一般上，历史的价值在于它能让后人反省，让后人通过历史的演变作为未来的借镜。但是金的历史和辽与西夏就是起不到这个作用。金的演变只能说是时势造英雄（造的更多的是枭雄）。一切的起起落落只不过是自然定律。金虽然有后金（满清）的伟大事迹，但是金朝自身只不过是昙花一现罢了。真正有价值的文化历史应该是给后人留下讨论空间的余地。金朝历史在这方面就缺乏了一些激情。一切的一切都是历史演变的理所当然罢了。。。

看完了这一系列的塞北三朝，我开始明白这一段历史当年在百家讲坛爆红的原因。充其量，观众就是爱听故事。当然，袁老师的讲古能力肯定是一绝。但是，民众就是喜欢听故事。再来，这一段历史很少人会接触。因此，故事的可听性质就攀升了。对于我，这一系列书籍增加了我不少知识。但是，基于我对历史的热爱和历史能够带给我省思的那一份执着，这本书我只能打个6分。再次澄清，这本书不是不好。只不过，它不是我喜欢的历史性质罢了。。。