Book Discussion slide deck for the book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

1. Professional
Development
Book Discussion
for Librarians
THE POWER OF HABIT BY CHARLES DUHIGG

2. How to break habits (from The Power of
Habit by Charles Duhigg)
Random House Publishing Group

3. The Habit Loop
Chapter one
http://360pt.fr/2013/12/new-year-same-habits/

4. On page 21 the author writes, “Habits are often as
much a curse as a benefit.” What are examples of
habits that are beneficial or detrimental in your
own life?

5. What kind of habits do we have in the library?

6. Chapter 2
The Craving
Brain

7. Why wasn’t the marketing campaign for
Fabreeze successful?

8. What is the difference between reward
and craving in the habit loop?

9. Chapter 3
The Golden
Rule of
Habit
Change

10. Why do you think it is easier to convince someone
to adopt a new behavior if it is preceded and
followed by something familiar at the beginning
and end?

11. Chapter 4
Keystone Habits, or the Ballad of Paul O'Neill

12. Have you ever been employed by a company or an
individual that embodied a strong, keystone habit
or culture, like the employee safety at Alcoa?

13. Chapter 5
Starbucks and
the Habit of
Success
Think back on the Marshmallow Study. Why is
willpower a keystone habit?

14. Chapter 6
The Power
of Crisis
What did you think of the scenarios with the
London Underground and Rhode Island hospital?
Can libraries learn anything from these
scenarios?

15. Chapter 7
How Target
Knows What
You Want
Before You
Do
What do you think of collecting information on
customers? Should libraries collect information to
target potential wants like automatic holds or
program reminders based on previous checkouts?

16. Chapter 8
Saddleback
Church and
the
Montgomery
Bus Boycott
Peer pressure involves the social habits that
encourage people to conform to group
expectations. What are some examples of
positive peer pressure?

17. Chapter 9
The
Neurology of
Free Will
How do our habits influence our choices?

18. http://getthepicture.ca/intro-to-powerful-habits-series/

19. How can you use your knowledge of large-scale
habit change to influence habits throughout the
library community?

20. Closing thoughts…

21. Additional Resources available at
Charlesduhigg.com