#200 — Creatures of Habit

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with James Clear about habit formation. They discuss the difference between creating good habits and discontinuing bad ones, the role of the environment, the misalignment between immediate and long term outcomes, the remembering self vs the experiencing self, goals vs systems, the compounding of incremental gains, the role of attention, the four laws of behavior change, “temptation bundling,” and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.
0:08.0	This is Sam Harris.
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0:45.8	Okay, today I'm speaking with James Clear.
0:51.5	James is the author of the book, Atomic Habits, which has been repeatedly recommended to
0:57.2	me.
0:59.2	Many of us go through life aspiring to acquire good habits and aspiring to lose bad
1:05.2	ones.
1:06.9	And we treat that process as though we're fundamentally mysterious.
1:12.7	But as it turns out, some people have thought a lot about habit formation.
1:17.6	And James is certainly one of those people.
1:20.1	So I wanted to get him here on the podcast to talk about it.
1:23.7	Really anything you want to accomplish in life that depends on your behavior, in any
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