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Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

Today we're talking with my good friend James Clear. He is an author and a habit change expert.

I've known James for a long time now and one thing that I can say about him is he's the kind of guy who gets obsessed with results.

Not in a scare everyone off because he's so intense kind of way, but more of a there's got to be a better way to do this that works and has lasting effects kind of way.

And that's one major reason that I wanted to get him on the show here to discuss his work, especially his new book, Atomic Habits, which is a freaking masterpiece.

I plowed through this thing. It was page after page of habit and behavior change gold.

And today we'll get through a sizable chunk of some of this amazing stuff. We're going to learn how James almost died from getting a baseball bat to the head.

He had to rebuild a lot of his behavior from scratch. And we'll talk about how James created the right kind of environment with internal and external stimuli to get where he needed to go and how you can do the same.

We'll explore the difference between systems and goals and we'll see why commitment to a process and not commitment to a goal is actually the key.

And we'll discover that what you do depends on the type of person that you believe you are. Of course, this all gets into belief structure identity change and a set of very specific practicals to go along with it.

So when you're done listening to this episode, you'll be well versed in the science of habit loops creating good habits and breaking bad ones, structuring the right environment for habit change success.

And even how to change who you are at your very core so you can structure your habits and your new life to get what you want out of it.

I love this book. I love this interview and I think you will as well. And of course, we've got work sheets for today's episode so you can make sure you solidify your understanding of all the key takeaways here from James Clear.

That link is in the show notes at Jordan Harbinger dot com slash podcast. And if you're wondering like many of you do how I managed to book all these great people have all these great people around me and invest and manage these relationships.

Well, I use systems and tiny habits speaking of systems and tiny habits. So check out our level one course, which includes all of those. It's free. And that's over at advanced human dynamics dot com slash level one.

All right, here's James clear James. I'm curious about how this all started for you. I know you had a massive concussion and it sounds like the most painful way to get a concussion to I mean it was just nasty.

Yeah, it was brutal. I so I was hitting the face of the baseball bat and that was between my sophomore and junior year of high school. And it ended up being incredibly serious. I mean my first 10 minutes or so I was like conscious enough to be walking around and answer some questions.

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