James Clear on the Compounding Power of Habits Part 2
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Chances are, you've heard the name James Clear. Especially if you have done any research whatsoever about building habits. That's kinda his neck of the woods. His work has appeared in The New York Times, CBS This Morning, Time, Entrepreneur and he has taught in colleges around the world. In this episode, part 2 of a 2 part series, he talks more about his new book, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones. You'll learn some really specific, easy and flat out "why didn't I think of that" genius methods to apply to your life and habits.
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In This Interview, James Clear and I Discuss...
- His book, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
- Habits are a response to the physical cues in our environment
- Increasing the friction it takes to complete the task
- The more you increase the steps between you and the bad behavior or decrease the steps between you and the good behavior the better
- Habit stacking/Anchoring
- "After _____ I will _____"
- The more specific the better
- Social environment and habits
- You want to join groups where your desired behavior is the normal behavior
- Make it easy
- The two-minute rule
- A habit must be established before it can be improved
- Optimize for the starting line rather than the finish line
- Make it satisfying
- Feel successful at the end
- Bring the long-term consequences into the short term
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| 0:00.0 | If I leave the phone in another room, then I never go get it in the morning, which is |
| 0:04.1 | always so funny to me because I never wanted it enough to put in 45 seconds of work. |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to The One You Feed. |
| 0:19.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes |
| 0:23.6 | like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:29.1 | And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:33.3 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:38.0 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:40.9 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:44.4 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:47.8 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:52.7 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how |
| 0:57.1 | they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:02.2 | Hey guys, here's part two of the interview with James Clear. |
| 1:14.6 | He has a new book called Atomic Habits, an easy and proven way to build good habits and |
| 1:20.2 | break bad ones. |
| 1:21.6 | James's work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, and Entrepreneur, and on CBS this |
| 1:27.1 | morning, and he has taught in colleges around the world. |
| 1:30.9 | His website, JamesClear.com receives millions of visitors each month, and hundreds of thousands |
| 1:35.8 | subscribed to his email newsletter. |
| 1:38.2 | He's the creator of The Habits Academy, the premier training platform for organizations |
| 1:42.8 | and individuals that are interested in building better habits in life and work. |
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