I know some people like the feel and smell of a paper book. Not me. My Kindle Oasis in a dimly lit room is the perfect reading apparatus. I consider myself more of a sporadic reader than an avid one. I have a tendency to start the same book, lose track, and need to restart it from the beginning fairly often.

I started reading Atomic Habits by James Clear yesterday which has been recommended by many people I follow in the productivity space.

I’ve read other books on habit forming, my favorite being The Power Of Habit by Charles Duhigg. I found it fascinating that when they first started to try to get people to brush their teeth in the early 1900’s, it wasn’t until they added a chemical that gave toothpaste it’s tingly feeling that people actually started cementing it as a habit. That was that chemical’s only job, to make you “feel” like it was working. It was other additives in the toothpaste that actually did the cleaning, but those didn’t give you any kind of sensation.

Let’s hope I can get to the end without having to restart it three times…and maybe it will help me finally establish a daily reading habit and become an avid reader.