Superhabits

Virtue learned and daily lived is the way toward order in our lives and intimacy with others. Andrew’s penetrating discoveries in this book help us relate to the virtues more intuitively and live them more fully, as we work to grow in effectiveness, joy, and peace.

A. Trey Traviesa

Replete with practical examples, Superhabits provides a playbook for joy in life and efficacy in business. A must read for veteran leaders looking to broaden their impact, and for young professionals seeking both career success and personal fulfillment.

A.M. (Toni) Sacconaghi

Superhabits should be required reading for the C-Suite and anyone aspiring to that role. Andrew guides his readers through the habits needed to succeed as a leader in business and explains how to integrate these same superhabits for a flourishing personal and spiritual life. Superhabits should replace every other how-to on business leadership and self-help on your bookshelf.

Alyson Barker

A rich blend of social science and ancient wisdom, Andrew Abela’s Superhabits shows how strengthening our virtues leads to well-being. This beautiful book is a must-read for anyone in pursuit of the better life.

Arthur Brooks

At the intersection of many more complicated self-discipline, self-improvement, and happiness fads that have been tried over time and now deluge us on a daily basis sits Andrew Abela’s Superhabits. It cuts through all of the noise with the simplicity of a centuries-old approach to human flourishing and how to live a better life.

Chris Veno

Andrew is one of the great thinkers of our day. A wonderfully pragmatic blueprint for cultivating simple, lasting habits to overcome challenges, enhance productivity and deepen personal fulfillment.

Christopher Lagan

In a world increasingly driven by science and technology, the humanities are often ignored. In Superhabits, Andrew Abela masterfully resurrects ancient wisdom, teaches it with exceptional storytelling, and brings virtue to life in a profoundly practical and impactful way that our society greatly needs.

David DeWolf

Dr. Abela has done readers an immeasurable good—not merely by providing a captivating and enjoyable read on a well-ordered life, complete with practical blueprints for the development of good habits and virtues—but by rooting this framework in that which is sustainable. When it comes to our pursuit of the good life, many humans have tried (and failed) to formularize that which was optimally codified millennia ago. The superhabits embedded in virtue are unique, indeed, yet as this book so powerfully demonstrates, discoverable for those who try.

David Bahnsen

Superhabits brings the ancient wisdom of the greatest thinkers into an accessible and practical framework for living the good life today. Andrew writes with a crisp and compelling style, and illustrates each of the superhabits with powerful, relevant, and engaging stories. This book will motivate you to examine your life with fresh insights and show you how to grow into your full potential.

Denis Beauséjour

Imagine a 13th century monk putting together a system for a successful and fulfilled life in the 21st century. And such a system has seemingly been lost to modern society. Dr. Abela has helped us all rediscover that system in a way to help us in both life and business.

Denis McFarlane

Abela combines scientific research, common sense, and page-turning short stories to establish beyond reasonable doubt what we all know deep down to be true: that a happy medium exists between the “greed is good” philosophy of Gordon Gekko and the prosperity gospel of televangelists. Superhabits proves that the time-tested recipe for prosperity and inner peace is much simpler and more accessible than you thought.

Flip Howard

In Superhabits, Dr. Andrew Abela has prescribed a practical and understandable formula for living better, happier, and more meaningfully based on the teachings about virtue by Thomas Aquinas. He has deftly brought the wisdom of Aquinas into the vernacular of the 21st Century. As such this work will provide all kinds of people with the tools for self-improvement. It is an important contribution to behavioral science.

Francis Rooney

Andrew Abela is deeply concerned with and motivated by a desire for human flourishing. He is a keen observer of the human condition, and a voracious scholar of the classic wisdom on the topic. Accordingly, he has written a book that both convinces that such human flourishing is possible, and presents a compelling argument that it can be—and how it might be—achieved. In short, this is a book that infuses hope into those who read it sincerely, with a desire to become more fully human and alive.

Frank Hanna

Ancient wisdom comes to modern day life. Abela does the heavy lifting here, making the application of these habits so straightforward for the reader.

Gates Garcia

Andrew Abela draws from ancient wisdom and modern science to help individuals become “the best version of themselves.” A master at promoting the virtuous person, Andrew demonstrates what it takes to better yourself in a world beset with false models for self-improvement.

Gerry Frigon

In today’s world, people seem to be more worried about virtue-signaling than actual virtue. They then wonder why they are unhappy in work and in life. Superhabits will help you rediscover the core habits that have been at the center of a purpose driven life for centuries.

Jason De Sena Trennert

At Rooted Pursuits, we believe excellence in life and leadership exists at the intersection of ethics and effectiveness. For this reason, self-mastery is the foundation of our leadership training. Using a MECE (mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive) approach to virtue, Superhabits provides a superior and eminently practical modern blueprint for developing self-mastery and attaining personal and vocational excellence.

Jeremy Gayed

In Superhabits, Andrew Abela makes ancient wisdom new, laying out a comprehensive framework for human flourishing drawn from the work of Thomas Aquinas. Where other self-help books focus on passing fads, Superhabits is anchored in timeless virtues and illustrated with practical examples. It truly is an operating system for life.

John Coleman

This highly engaging and practical book provides sustenance for the soul. Melding wisdom drawn from philosophers, sages, and scientists with page-turning stories of everyday people overcoming extraordinary odds, Superhabits is a guidebook for all of us to grow and thrive in fulfilling our life’s purpose.

Kathleen McLaughlin

Andrew Abela’s book, Superhabits, is a unique blend of practical wisdom based on the great thinkers of the last two millennia and guidelines for personal well-being based on current scientific research, with uplifting and entertaining examples. This is a book that everyone—professional and unprofessional, educated and uneducated, ambitious and unambitious, leader and follower—should be sure to read and treasure.

Kim Cameron

A great deal has been written recently about “the power of habit,” but much of that advice comes up short because it focuses only on the “how.” Breaking old habits and building new ones doesn’t mean much if you don’t know why you’re making these changes and what new habits you should be developing. In Superhabits, Andrew Abela makes a compelling case for (re-)anchoring habits and behaviors in a deeper understanding of timeless wisdom, essential values, and humane ethics. Erudite but delightfully readable, Superhabits should be read by anyone stuck in the rut of unproductive habits and, even more so, by anyone who wants to live a richer and more flourishing life.

Mark Nevins

Superhabits is an invitation to an ancient path of super-truth, super-insights, and super-power for unleashing a super life. We all want a better world, better businesses, to live a better story—the principles and practices of this book will help that change start with YOU. Much like how “common sense” is not so common, these virtuous habits are a treasure to be renewed and restored on the path of a life of fulfilling our created purpose!

Mike Sharrow

Most entrepreneurs discover that they do not have all the talents necessary to launch and grow a successful business. If they commit to cultivating Dr. Abela’s superhabits in themselves and recruit others who exhibit them, they will marvel at both the tangible and intangible rewards.

Myles Harrington

Superhabits is a work of deep philosophical wisdom disguised as a self-help book. Through a series of remarkable stories of individuals from our own times, Andrew Abela demonstrates how recovering the ancient virtues is not only the way to transform our own lives for the better but is also key to healing our society as well.

N.S. Lyons

Andrew is one of the most principled and thoughtful people I know. Superhabits is going to be a classic. It is an eminently useful and readable guide to living well.

Patrick Lencioni

There’s a shelf in my library, out of reach of all the others, that contains the books that have shaped my life: because they carry unique personal meaning; because they’re written by people I deeply admire; and, sometimes, because they’re just really good reads. Andrew’s take on “the unique ingredients for a flourishing life” will have a home on that shelf because it satisfies all three of those criteria. He artfully combines deep research across a broad set of disciplines regarding personal self-governance—history, theology, psychology, management, education (the list goes on)—with engaging vignettes and classic Abela humor to teach us the secrets of living our most fulfilling, happiest lives. “Thriving” and “triumphing.” These are our best ambitions; this is a book we need.

Peter Buer

An easy read and a timely book. Complaining about a deteriorating culture or the effects of the pandemic on our personal and professional lives does little good. Dr. Abela leads us back to some fundamental truths—basic good habits will make one’s life more enjoyable, productive and provide a positive example for our friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. This subject can seem daunting, because it is, but this small tome breaks it down into bite sized morsels. Pick one of these morsels and get going on becoming superhabinated.

R. Scott Turicchi

Superhabits by Andrew Abela is an intriguing, original study on the perduring value of virtue as the key to productive and beneficial living.

Robert Luddy

Unique in the sea of leadership books, Abela provides a pointed, research-backed view on what actually matters. The superhabits described are exactly what executives need to lead their businesses in this dynamic, digital age.

Sarah Elk

Mastering leadership in today’s global markets demands more than strategy—it requires superhabits. This insightful book reveals the system of superhabits for driving business success on the world stage.

Sean Mifsud

In the new AI world we are entering, we will all need to step up our game. Good habits will not be good enough. Enter Andrew Abela and Superhabits. With his easy style and clear thinking, he has produced an instant classic for success in a world moving ever faster. This book is a must read for everyone who wants to become a better version of themselves as we face the road ahead.

Stephen Auth

If employers help their teams grow in the habits of excellence, it will be good for the company, and even better for employees—setting them up for a lifetime of success and fulfillment, at work and at home. Superhabits by Dean Abela is the book that every CEO, entrepreneur, and investor should read.

Tim Busch

The world is full of advice on how to do more, and too short of advice on how to do better. Andrew Abela’s Superhabits is a clear roadmap to the latter. It provides concrete tools for linking what we do to why we work—and in the process makes us better leaders, professionals, and—well—people.

Tom Monahan