Hey there, welcome to The Fizzle Show. I'm your host, Corbett Bar, and this is our podcast about

earning a living independently doing something you really care about. Our guest today is James Clear.

James is the New York Times best-selling author of Atomic Habits, which has sold over one million copies.

James also writes weekly about habits, decisions, human performance, and more over at

James Clear.com where over a half million people subscribe to his weekly email newsletter.

James, thank you so much for being on the show today.

Hey, Corbett, great to talk to you. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks for coming on the show today. Hey, Corbett.

Great to talk to you.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, thanks for coming on again.

We had you on about a year ago as the book was coming out, Atomic Habits.

And since then, as I mentioned in the opener, you've sold over a million copies of the book.

That's just incredible.

You've been on the bestseller list for how many weeks now?

Yeah, thanks. It's been really crazy. Very happy with how it's gone.

Depends on which bestseller list we're looking at. For the New York Times business list,

it's been on for 12 months straight now, which is crazy. For the advice and how to list,

I think it's been on there eight or nine times now.

That one's weekly, not monthly.

So some of the lists have different timelines, but we've been very fortunate for sure.

It's been a wild ride.

Did you have any goals or estimates or anything of how many you wanted to sell when you set out?

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