The implications of the book are intriguing for purveyors of faith as well. All of his insights are rooted in the emerging science of habit formation, an influential field in the business world and perfected by retail giants like Target.
An award-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times, Duhigg may even surpass Gladwell, particularly in his ability to provide pragmatic and concrete instructions on how to think about and change personal habits. Ultimately, Lehrer announced publicly that he had lied and then hidden his tracks he resigned in disgrace from the New Yorker, and his publisher yanked the book from circulation (though by then it had already sold over 2 million copies).įar more developed and convincing in terms of its overall plan and argument and certainly far more trustworthy, Duhigg’s The Power of Habit will remind readers of Gladwell’s best work, and it represents the best this genre can muster. Now his ethics and trustworthiness were suspect. Later Lehrer was outed for fabricating quotes from Dylan and for lying to another journalist investigating the quotes. Isaac Chotiner of the New Republic called “almost everything” in the lead narrative of the book-a biographical sketch of Bob Dylan and an account of the composition of his greatest song, “Like a Rolling Stone”-“inaccurate, misleading, or simplistic.” As a Dylan aficionado myself, I concur. Representing the worst, Imagine came in for very strong criticism almost immediately upon publication for its simplifications and some dubious conclusions. Read our latest issue or browse back issues.
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