I second "Atomic Habits". It's not my inspiration for building a habit (it' too dry and too methodological for me) but it explains some core ideas why habit is

I second "Atomic Habits". It's not my inspiration for building a habit (it' too dry and too methodological for me) but it explains some core ideas why habit is important. One of the main benefit is once you commit your habit, you do it without thinking and even arguing. For example, I commit to read several pages of book before bed time. I try to keep it everyday, even the holiday. Just one page is okay. The amount it accumulates is amazing. Now I already read 40 books per year and still counting. * PS: my inspiration for building habit is Haruki Murakami. "When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. But to hold to such repetition for so long — six months to a year — requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity."