James Clear: Building Small Good Habits to Produce Big Results

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Forget about New Year's Resolutions! Let's talk about the small habits we do every single day that define our entire year...or even our whole life! This episode of the Align Podcast is a rerun of my interview with James Clear about his New York Times bestseller, “Atomic Habits,” which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. While explaining how habits are formed, James argues that we can transform our lives just by committing to small, consistent behavioral changes. Simply put, set a GOAL and build HABITS that align with it! Good habits don't even need to be grand; they can be as simple as placing your phone away from you for a certain period to avoid checking it 200x a day and make space for things that matter. Need help in breaking bad habits? Listen to the entire episode to understand why we repeat an action (good or bad) over and over again and how to make true changes that last longer than any of your New Year's Resolutions! Besides being a successful author, James Clear is a weightlifter and travel photographer. His presence is sought by big companies worldwide for his insightful speeches on habit improvement and personal development. What we discuss: 2:30 - Get 1% better each day instead of having no improvement at all 4:02 - How to avoid addiction to modern technology by adding friction to your actions 7:30 - 2 Tips to improve bad habits 10:48 - Most of us are drug addicts; we just don’t realize it 13:00 - The 4 Stages of Habit Formation 16:00 - Why we get addicted to social media & video games + how to control it 20:40 - Outcome-based habit Vs. Identity-based habit: Which is better? 29:29 - How to be the architect of your environment rather than a victim of it 33:50 - Why success isn't about grinding & hustling but about decision-making & habit-forming 37:20 - Explore Vs. Exploit Trade-Off: When to know when it's time to give up Learn more about James: Website: jamesclear.com Instagram: @jamesclear Related Links: www.alignpodcast.com/alignmethod for a special discount eatonhemp.com/align and use ALIGN code during checkout to save 20 percent drinkLMNT.com/align for a FREE sample pack of LMNT RECHARGE www.magbreakthrough.com/alignpodcast and use ALIGN10 during checkout to save 10 percent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Line Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander and this is a place that we bring together
0:06.7	the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement.
0:11.6	Today's gorgeous conversation is with one of the world's best-selling
0:17.0	authors essentially ever. The man's name is James Clear, and this conversation is a throwback to just before the book went out actually.
0:25.8	The book is referred to as atomic habits, an easy and proven way to build good habits
0:30.5	and break bad ones.
0:31.8	Tiny changes, remarkable results.
0:35.0	This book is going on to sell millions upon millions of copies.
0:38.6	Can't seem to get off of the number one place in the New York Times list and it's just impressive to see what hard work, focus,
0:49.4	and just really trusting the process I think is something that James has been doing for a long time and I remember going out to dinner with him before recording this podcast the night before talking about the work that he put into the book and he's been doing his mailing list for years and
1:05.1	years and just slowly bit by bit brick by brick building his following and
1:10.9	building his impact and building his mind and it was a beautiful thing to get to see all that hard work come to fruition in the form of this incredible book.
1:20.0	So I'm so grateful to get to share conversations like this with y'all grateful for the authenticity kindness from people like James
1:27.8	So I hope you guys enjoy this conversation before you get started want to share a review on the iTunes Apple Podcast rather.
1:36.5	This comes from Colby, LA.
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1:40.5	I follow the line of podcast in Aaron's Instagram exercise for over three years I am
1:44.0	consistently inspired to achieve my own health goals as a result I may not reach
1:48.9	the same golden bronze color it does not exist in nature only in this podcast host but I'll keep
1:55.2	good on you mate. Golden Bronze Color. Thank you very much. Colby L. A. If you
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