#415 - Habits Dictate Results with James Clear

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Ben Coomber

Science, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We all have habits, some good, some bad, and many are working to have better habits for better outcomes, but this is one step of the process, what about the issues along the way, how do we deal with them? James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, a #1 New York Times bestselling book joins me to talk about the science of habits, techniques you can use to improve yours, 3 key roadblocks most face, building identity based habits over goal based habits, his personal habit struggles, and the beauty of gaining creativity from all walks of life as someone into personal development.

Visit James at www.jamesclear.com

0:00 – 3:40 An introduction to James Clear and his book - Atomic Habits
03:45 - The area’s of learning James has taken inspiration from
05:15 - Structuring your environment to design good habits
06:30 - Redesigning your habits
08:40 – Identity based habits
14:30 – Habit, routine and teaching yourself to tell a new story.
17:00 – 3 reasons your new habit won’t last, and how to avoid it.
• Trying to perfect a habit before it is properly established
• The all or nothing attitude
• Not having a ‘what if’ plan.
24:08 – How to get back on track quickly
30:20 – Leaving environments that aren’t positively impacting your goals
34:00 – Finding your tribe
36:15 – What habits has James struggled with himself?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Ben-Cuba Radio, episode number 415 of Ben-Cuba Radio and good God I am excited for today's show.
0:08.4	So right back in the early days of this podcast, I got an incredible guest on the show. the
0:15.0	episode did really well at the time is still listen to very well and since that podcast went live
0:22.0	his career has continued to skyrocket and he's now in a place talking about
0:30.3	Something that a huge amount of a struggle with when it comes to health and fitness
0:35.2	and it's all centered around our habits and routines because ultimately we are a product
0:40.5	of the habits that we have or the habits that we create to try and uphold both
0:46.3	the strong and the weak side of our characters and I am super excited to talk
0:51.8	about it today to go into this another level because we've talked
0:54.6	about this a lot on the show over the last 18 months but there's more to explore.
0:58.9	James Clear welcome back to the show.
1:01.6	Hello so good to talk to you.
1:03.0	Thanks for having me back.
1:04.0	Dude, it's been probably near on six years now.
1:10.2	The show is about six years old.
1:12.2	There's been about 403 episodes since you were last on the show.
1:17.0	Talk to me about like, I suppose, introduce yourself first because loads of people would not have
1:23.5	listened to that show so remind us of who you are and what you do and what's
1:27.9	happened over the last six years because you have written an incredible book
1:31.8	that I will be honest I've not read the whole book I've read I've sorry I've audio
1:38.2	listened to the slightly shortened version.
1:40.5	Yeah so my name's James Clear.
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