James Clear: Building Good Habits and Breaking Bad Ones
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Jesse invites the author behind one of his favorite books, Atomic Habits, to join the podcast and talk about what he learned about setting good habits, breaking bad ones, and developing environments and systems conducive to productive habits. As James says, the things you do and accomplish in life are essentially lagged indicators of your habits. So building good habits slowly, methodically, and thoughtfully can result in big rewards down the road.
James Clear
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Weinabbers. My name is Jesse Meakum, and this is podcast number 512 for Weinab, |
| 0:09.1 | where we teach you four rules to help you stop living in Pitchard to Pitchek, get a |
| 0:12.4 | debt, and save more money. Today, we welcome a special guest. And someone, I'm Mr. Big |
| 0:18.0 | Fan, the team of Weinab are huge fans. And something tells me that you listeners might |
| 0:23.5 | be too. Today's guest is best selling author of Atomic Habits, the one, the only James |
| 0:28.4 | Clear. James is an author, entrepreneur, and photographer. He writes about habits and |
| 0:34.0 | human potential on his website, JamesClear.com. His focus is self-improvement that is supported |
| 0:39.8 | by scientific research. James work ends up being kind of one part storytelling, one part |
| 0:46.2 | academic research, and then one part his own personal experimentation. If you've been |
| 0:50.7 | listening to the podcast for a while, you know that I'm a huge fan of James and Atomic |
| 0:54.0 | Habits. In part, because habit change, it's really what we're trying to do here at Weinab, |
| 0:59.2 | help you change your habits and ways of thinking when it comes to how you budget, spend, save, |
| 1:04.3 | and manage your money. Last year, after I read Atomic Habits, I released a few episodes |
| 1:08.9 | about how concepts from the book relate back to budgeting. If you want to go back and |
| 1:12.6 | listen, they're episode number 433 through 437. We start off by me asking James if his name |
| 1:20.5 | is real, because I mean, it's phenomenal. James Clear, hello, but then we move on to |
| 1:25.2 | meteor topics after that. Now, let's welcome James Clear to the Weinab podcast. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay, James, thanks for jumping on for this interview. Appreciate him. Yeah, of course. |
| 1:38.4 | Happy to talk to you. Thanks for having me. So I'm going to ask you a question that maybe |
| 1:41.4 | you aren't always asked out of the gate, but how long have you been working on your, |
| 1:45.3 | on your site, JamesClear.com? Like when did you start that thing? What's the journey |
| 1:49.4 | you've been like? I wrote the first article November 12, 2012, and so basically beginning |
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