The goal is not to run a marathon, the goal is to become a runner. The goal is not to ride above the goals to become a writer.

And so it's like, yeah, become the type of person who in X domain, right? Become the type of person who works out each day or who writes a sentence each day who meditates for 10 minutes or whatever the particular identity is that you're looking to build.

It's one thing to say like I want this but it's something very different to say, I am this.

And once you have adopted a particular identity,

you're not even really pursuing behavior change anymore.

You're acting in alignment with the type of person

you already believe that you are.

So here's a bit of an interesting question.

What if achieving everything you wanted in life

was not about setting goals that were, you know,

using all the standard stuff that you're supposed to use but

entirely letting go of goals and actually focusing on daily behaviors little tiny

incremental improvement that compounds over time stacks up to create

astonishing outcomes in your life. That is just a piece of the conversation that

we dive into in today's rich exploration with James Clear.

He's the author of a fantastic book called Atomic Habits that deconstructs the world of habit and

has become this global phenomenon instant worldwide

bestseller with over 15 million copies sold. But we go in a pretty different place

with James. Yes we talk about, but we also really dive into his background, into the things that happen in his life that led him to a place of pursuing life differently, that led him to the awakenings of the power of sort of

microscopic behavior changes and compound interest on those things and we also

touch on some pretty uncovered territory here.

Things like the relationship between genetics, hereditary habits and achievement and

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