#064 - James Clear - How To Build Habits That Last
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello friends. I hope you are sitting comfortably and fully strapped in for today |
| 0:05.2 | because it's a big one. James Clear is the author of Atomic Habits and has half a million |
| 0:10.6 | people subscribed to his newsletter. You will have heard myself, Johnny and Yusuf mentioning |
| 0:15.2 | Atomic Habits a lot so far this year. So if you don't trust our opinion, then the opinion of half |
| 0:21.2 | a million other people hopefully will encourage you to believe that we know what we're talking about. |
| 0:27.1 | James's episode with myself today is nothing short of one of the most actionable and most |
| 0:32.9 | important episodes that I've done. I'm aware I keep on saying this, but it genuinely is. Our lives |
| 0:39.2 | are shaped by the actions that we do every day. Anything that we accomplish from the small to the |
| 0:45.6 | great is a lagging measure of the daily actions that we take. And today James is going to take us |
| 0:54.4 | through exactly how we build habits and how we break them, how you can use a proven methodology |
| 1:01.5 | to make your habits stick and to get away from things that you wish you would stop doing. |
| 1:06.8 | We're also going to talk a lot about finding purpose in life and how your genetics do not predetermined, |
| 1:12.4 | but they do predispose where to look for your passion when it comes to work and also hobbies. |
| 1:19.6 | It's fantastic. This blend of the conceptual and philosophical with the actionable is exactly |
| 1:26.1 | why I started doing this podcast. If you only recommend one episode to a friend ever, |
| 1:34.4 | I suggest that it's this one. And I would really appreciate it if you do just that. There's three |
| 1:40.4 | dots on the bottom right hand corner or there'll be a little up arrow with a share button. |
| 1:44.1 | Copy the link and send it to a friend who you want to help improve themselves. |
| 1:48.8 | They'll benefit from it. And so on my play count. So please do it. I would really appreciate it. |
| 1:54.6 | But for now, please welcome James Clear. |
| 2:13.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I'm joined by Mr. James Clear. How are you today? |
| 2:18.8 | Hello. Yeah, good to talk to you. I'm doing well. Welcome to the show. A lot of the listeners |
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