A Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones with James Clear
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Join us on Unmistakable Creative for an enlightening conversation with James Clear, an author, photographer, and entrepreneur. In this episode, Clear shares his scientific approach to building good habits and breaking bad ones, providing profound yet easy-to-understand insights that can be applied to our lives immediately.
Discover how Clear, the author of the worldwide bestseller 'Atomic Habits,' uncovers the scientific truth behind habits and human potential. Learn about his research and how it can help us live better lives. Clear's work is not just about personal growth but also about how we can contribute to a more productive and fulfilling life.
Don't miss this episode to learn from one of the most influential voices in productivity and habit formation. Gain insights that could transform your life and career, and understand how to apply the latest scientific research into human behavior to your own life.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, so an atomic habits I referred to this is the plateau of latent potential. |
| 0:04.4 | And something is pretty common for a lot of habits and, you know, so you mentioned earlier that quote from the book |
| 0:09.7 | about habits compounding over time and I like to refer to habits as the compound |
| 0:13.5 | interest of self-improvement which is what I mean that like the same way that money |
| 0:18.1 | multiplies through compound interest the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them over time. But it's not a |
| 0:24.6 | linear curve, it's not a straight progression. We think we, a lot of the time we have |
| 0:29.2 | this expectation that if we put in a little bit of work then we'll get a little bit of results. So if we put in a little bit of work then we'll get a little bit of results. |
| 0:33.4 | So if we put in a massive amount of work, then we'll get massive results. |
| 0:36.2 | And we think that it should be like this just linear step function going up. |
| 0:40.5 | And it often is not that way at all. It's much more kind of like the |
| 0:44.0 | hockey stick curve where there's like this valley of death early on and you're |
| 0:47.4 | putting all this work in but you don't really see any results and the most, |
| 0:50.8 | I mean this is a hallmark of any compounding process. |
| 0:53.5 | The most powerful outcomes are delayed. |
| 0:55.8 | You have to wait for them. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds of started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
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