James Clear: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

James Clear is the founder of the Habits Academy and author of the New York Times bestselling book Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with James about the mechanics of habit change—specifically through careful, incremental daily improvements. James shares the dramatic story of the sports injury that nearly killed him when he was a teenager, as well as how his recovery experience informed his eventual career. Tami and James talk about how to discern what habits will serve you best and why small changes lead to big results. Finally, they discuss examples of bypassing through habit change and the optimal amount of time it takes to shift behaviors. (60 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities
0:46.9	in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.0	Today my guest is James Clear.
1:13.0	James Clear is the author of the New York Times best-selling book,
1:17.0	Atomic Habits, an easy and proven way
1:20.3	to build good habits and break bad ones.
1:22.8	He's also the creator of Habits Academy,
1:26.1	which is a training platform for individuals
1:29.0	and organizations that are interested
1:31.0	in building better habits in life and work.
1:34.0	In this conversation with James, my own approach and the approach of Sounds True historically,
1:40.0	which has been the depth of internal change and discovery, meets external behavior change,
1:49.1	how they come together and compliment each other.
1:52.1	Here's my conversation with James, I was reading your book Atomic Habits and the very opening story your story of how you became a habit change
2:18.0	expert really moved me it was very powerful and by way of introduction would you be willing to
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