Best of: Change Your Identity to Change Your Habits with James Clear
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In one of the best interviews we’ve had, we spoke with James Clear, author and entrepreneur, talks about how habits impact entrepreneurship, health, and creativity and about how to treat your failures as data points that are required for mastery. Take a listen to help tear down myths you’ve learned about creativity and habits and how James can help you change your life!
James Clear writes at JamesClear.com, where he shares strategies based on proven research and real-world experiences that make it easier to stick to good habits and live a healthy life
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| 0:00.0 | As you probably notice, this month we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting |
| 0:04.6 | some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical |
| 0:09.4 | strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve |
| 0:14.4 | personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get |
| 0:18.5 | recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook. What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose. Again, that's unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose. As you encounter more failures and realize that you survive and that you can continue to move on and that it doesn't |
| 0:37.7 | prevent you from being a success and you're not dead. Whether that's in business or your art |
| 0:43.2 | or your life in general, the easier it becomes. Not that it's easy to go through the failures, |
| 0:48.0 | but I think it's easier to work past them and continue to move forward rather than letting |
| 0:53.3 | them like derail you for months |
| 0:54.8 | on end, it's always going to suck to go through something that you care about and fail on it. |
| 0:59.8 | Like it's never easy in the moment. But the more that you overcome it, the easier it becomes |
| 1:04.4 | to continue to move past it over and over and over again. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm Sreeny 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 who started movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:24.0 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com. |
| 1:32.3 | James, welcome to The Unmistakable Creative. Thanks for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:36.7 | For sure. Thanks for having me, man. It's great to be here. Yeah. Well, I should say welcome back |
| 1:40.7 | because, I mean, you and I have known each other for quite some time but you know |
| 1:45.4 | in the past you know when we were broadcast FM we took a very sort of different approach to what |
| 1:49.0 | you've been working on but what really got me interested in everything you're doing is all the work |
| 1:52.4 | that you've been doing on medium but before we get into that tell us a bit about your background |
| 1:58.1 | your story and how that has led led you to where you're at. |
| 2:02.0 | Sure. So the last couple of times we talked sort of early in my entrepreneurial journey, |
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