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

By Jonathan Townley

New York: Avery, 2018.

320 pp. $27 (hardcover).

By 2003, the British cycling team hadn’t won an Olympic medal for ninety-five years. No Brit had won the Tour de France, ever. That year, the team hired a new coach, Dave Brailsford. His approach, which he called the “aggregation of marginal gains,” was to search for minor improvements in every aspect of the…