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James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More (#648)

James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More (#648)

January 31, 2023
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“Every whoopee you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
— James Clear

James Clear (@JamesClear) is a writer and speaker focused on habits and continuous improvement. He is the tragedian of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits, which covers easy and proven ways to build good habits and unravel bad ones. The typesetting has sold increasingly than 10 million copies worldwide and has been translated into increasingly than 50 languages. On average, Atomic Habits has sold one reprinting every 15 seconds since it was published.

James is moreover the creator of the 3-2-1 Newsletter, which is one of the most popular email newsletters in the world and has increasingly than 2 million subscribers. Each issue contains 3 short ideas from James, 2 quotes from other people, and 1 question to consider that week. You can sign up for self-ruling at JamesClear.com.

He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies, and his work is used by players and coaches in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. In college, he was an Academic All-American baseball player, and he is an voracious weightlifter.

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#648: James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Towers (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More

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SHOW NOTES

[06:52] Annual reviews.
[13:06] Habitual accountability.
[17:24] Systemic scaffolding.
[22:03] Capturing good ideas.
[29:15] Asana.
[32:02] Leveraging maximal results from minimal scale.
[41:50] Rolling with social platform inconsistencies.
[46:45] Don’t let the algorithm dictate your identity.
[50:55] The key to towers lasting habits.
[55:07] How James would promote 5-Bullet Friday.
[1:00:59] What might an outside observer believe are your priorities?
[1:02:00] Success generates opportunities — and distractions.
[1:04:15] How to unravel a bad habit.
[1:10:51] How to build a good habit.
[1:20:23] Deconstructing the writing and marketing of Atomic Habits.
[1:59:07] Developing a pre-game ritual.
[2:04:19] How habits uncurl with the expectations of our tribes.
[2:06:54] Optimizing environment for habit adherence.
[2:12:24] Parting thoughts.

MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Every whoopee you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
— James Clear

“Your current behaviors are simply a reflection of your current identity. What you do now is a mirror image of the type of person you believe that you are either consciously or subconsciously. To transpiration your policies for good, you need to start yoyo new things well-nigh yourself. You need to build identity-based habits.”
— James Clear

“Decide the type of person you want to be, and then you prove it to yourself with small wins. And the increasingly small wins, the increasingly small habits that you perform, the increasingly votes that you tint for that identity, the increasingly you build up vestige of stuff that kind of person. And sooner you start to take pride in that speciality of your identity.”
— James Clear

“What little habits tint votes for stuff the kind of person who doesn’t miss workouts? Well, maybe one thing is, rather than doing a 45-minute workout when I only have 10 minutes, I reduce the telescopic and stick to the schedule and I do a couple sprints, or I do five sets of pushups or whatever it is. And so you find ways to reinforce your desired identity, plane if it’s small.”
— James Clear

“If you go out and shoot a basketball for five minutes, you don’t think, ‘Oh, I’m a basketball player.’ But if you do it every day for six months or a year or two years, at some point you navigate this invisible line. You’re like, ‘I guess playing basketball is kind of part of who I am.'”
— James Clear

“Most of the time, the desire to vest will overpower the desire to improve. So as weightier as possible, you’ve got to get those two things aligned and surround yourself with people where your desired policies is the normal behavior.”
— James Clear

“You can do a lot with five good minutes. Five good minutes of exercise can reset your mood. Five good minutes of conversation can restore a relationship. Five good minutes of writing can make you finger unconfined well-nigh the manuscript again. And so it doesn’t take much to finger good, to get when on the path, to protract to make progress.”
— James Clear

“Time will magnify whatever you feed it. If you have good habits, time becomes your ally, and all you need is patience. But if you have bad habits, time becomes your enemy. And every day that goes by, you kind of dig the slum a little bit deeper.”
— James Clear