Ted Audio Collective

Building bad habits is often pretty frictionless, it's somewhat easy.

The way that we all talk about building good habits where we're like, oh man, I just

need to get myself to go to the gym.

Nobody says that about eating donuts.

Nobody says, oh man, if I could just get myself to eat more donuts.

We don't talk about it that way.

On the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.

For 18 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about

what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working

on.

On this episode, James Clear talks about building good habits.

Your habits are how you embody a particular identity, even if they're small, I think that

makes them particularly powerful.

Okay, so you have a few bad habits, maybe you bite your nails, maybe you drink too much,

too often.

Oh, and cheese, is there too much cheese in your life?

I know there is in mind, and don't get me started on flossing.

And yet, it's hard, it's really, really, really hard to break a bad habit, and it's just

as hard to get a good habit going.

Or is it?

James Clear thinks it's doable, and he wrote a blockbuster, best-selling book about it,

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