Making Habits, Breaking Habits

Jeremy Dean draws on more than a hundred peer-reviewed studies to give a genuinely evidence-based account of how habits form and how long change actually takes — and the 21-day myth debunking alone is worth the read for anyone who has ever blamed themselves for falling off a routine. Kirkus called it out for setting realistic expectations, which is a feature not a flaw. It is secular and practical rather than values-driven, but nothing here conflicts with faith; it simply focuses on the science.