«The Power of Focus» is right that habits decide your life and wrong that any method delivers certainty. We grade its ten strategies against the research.

Taylor got the direction right — felt time bends with age, novelty, and attention — but oversells control and drifts into transpersonal metaphysics. Here is the part that survives.

Richard Branson’s memoir turns one lucky life into universal advice. We keep the one durable rule — protect the downside — and check the rest against the survival data.

Kerry Gleeson’s Personal Efficiency Program rests on one rule: «Do It Now». We test it against the research on switch costs and interruptions, and say what survives.

Mark Goulston’s workplace catalog of self-defeating behaviours works as a mirror and disappoints as a method. We keep the parts research supports and cut the rest.