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The Upgrade by Lifehacker

How to Make or Break a Habit, With 'Atomic Habits'' James Clear

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6688 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Does it really take 21 days to create a habit? Is it possible to quit smoking when all your friends are smokers? Why can’t you ever get up early and go to the gym? We’re talking to productivity experts like “Atomic Habits”’ James Clear about how we can make changes to our behavior, and what it takes to actually stick with those changes.

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That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.

1:09.8

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker.

1:12.4

And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we want to talk about how we can break our

1:18.0

bad habits. What are your bad habits? Biting your nails, always interrupting people.

1:24.3

What do you mean? Eating in bed, always running late. What are your bad habits? I have no

1:30.7

bad habits. No, it's so funny. I don't either. We're going to learn out other people's bad habits today.

1:35.8

Yeah, it's so easy to identify other people's bad habits when you're perfect. Okay, so what's my

1:41.1

bad habit? Your bad habit is, well, you're just constantly bragging about how perfect you are.

1:48.5

And that is a habit I'd like to break you of.

1:50.9

Interesting.

1:51.4

Yeah.

1:51.6

Your bad habit is you keep reminding me that I keep bragging about how perfect I am.

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