James Clear - Atomic Habits and Building a New Identity After Retirement
Financial Independence Podcast
The Mad Fientist
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A challenging aspect of early retirement is the loss of identity you may experience when leaving a career you’ve spent a big chunk of your life building.
However, one of the most exciting parts of early retirement is that you have the time, money, and freedom to create a completely new identity!
How do you do it though?
Today, I had the privilege to speak to the writer who has been most helpful to me as I’ve started building my own new identity – James Clear.
In this episode, we discuss habits, deliberate practice, and how to best create a meaningful and purpose-driven life!
Highlights:
- What makes life meaningful and how to live better
- The importance of social connections
- How to deal with the “pain of discipline”
- The physics of productivity and why habits are so powerful
- The importance of having an easy on-ramp to a task
- Why a habit must be established before it can be improved
- How to find a keystone habit that can improve multiple areas of your life
- Why you should optimize for the starting line rather than the finish line
- The downsides of habits
- What is deliberate practice and why it’s important
- How habits can change your identity
- Why rewards are good (but only if they don’t conflict with your new identity)
- What is intermittent fasting and why it’s beneficial
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm blind to give you with her finance. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey what's up everyone. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast where I get inside the brains of some of the best |
| 0:11.0 | and brightest to find out how they achieved financial |
| 0:12.9 | independence. Today's episode's a real treat for me because I'm getting to |
| 0:16.4 | interview somebody that I'm a big fan of and I actually don't know him |
| 0:20.3 | personally but a few weeks ago I got an email from him and I just |
| 0:23.7 | assumed it was a normal newsletter email because I'm subscribed to his email list |
| 0:27.1 | but instead it was a personal email to me asking if I wanted a copy of his new book |
| 0:31.5 | and since I'm a huge fan, I of course said yes. |
| 0:34.7 | And I also asked if he wanted to be interviewed for this show. |
| 0:37.6 | And luckily he agreed. |
| 0:38.6 | So I'm really excited to chat with him for the first time. |
| 0:41.8 | My guest is James Clear, and if you're one of the other |
| 0:44.3 | 400,000 plus subscribers on his email list you know that he's one of the best writers |
| 0:48.9 | when it comes to motivation and habits and personal productivity and health and well-being |
| 0:54.6 | and lots of different topics that are actually all the topics |
| 0:57.8 | that I'm really needing to read about these days |
| 1:00.3 | because now that I've left my job, |
| 1:02.2 | I don't have any sort of external motivation to do things |
| 1:04.6 | but there are lots of goals and long-term projects that I want to make progress on and his |
| 1:10.4 | writing has been really instrumental in helping me make progress on those and do it in a way |
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