My Chat with James Clear, Bestselling Author of Atomic Habits (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_322)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Topics covered include habit formation and habit change, one's identity and personality traits when seeking to develop good habits, behaviourism (e.g., Skinnerian conditioning), the writing process, how to package and market ideas, what constitutes useful ideas and interesting research questions, creative pursuits, life as a playground, humour, weight loss journeys, evolutionary psychology and the distinction between proximate and ultimate explanations (using pregnancy sickness as an example), the mismatch hypothesis, temporal incongruity, and intertemporal choice. _______________________________________ Website of James Clear: https://jamesclear.com _______________________________________ Message from the sponsor for this episode: Please head off to masterworks.io/saadtruth and use promo code Saad Truth to sign up. _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This chat was posted earlier today (November 15, 2021) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1335: https://youtu.be/l32XHj5ycqc _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is God Sad I'm really looking forward to today's conversation
0:04.3	but before we get started an important message if you've been following me for any
0:08.8	length of time you know I believe certain ideas need to be shared. This is one of those ideas. Most people think the only way to make money is in the stock market.
0:18.0	But what they don't realize is, there are a number of alternative ways to make money today.
0:23.0	But one of my favorite and what I feel most ingenious ways I've recently seen
0:28.5	is investing in contemporary art and I'm not alone either.
0:32.4	Art is one of the hottest markets in the world. art. And I'm not alone either.
0:33.0	Art is one of the hottest markets in the world
0:35.0	according to the Wall Street Journal.
0:37.0	There's a good reason for that.
0:39.0	It's a $1.7 trillion asset class.
0:42.0	It's grown by 2,539% since 1995 and has beaten the S&P 500 from 1995 to 2020. to take the first step and participate in million dollar offerings
0:57.7	by artists like Picasso, Banksy, and Monet, without having to spend millions of dollars go to masterworks dot
1:06.1	I.O slash sad truth. Just keep in mind art is a limited asset and these incredible offerings have previously sold out in hours.
1:16.2	Once again, to skip their wait list and invest in contemporary art go to masterworks.
1:22.0	I.O. slash sad truth.
1:25.0	See important disclaimers at Masterworks.
1:28.0	dot I.
1:29.0	slash disclaimer.
1:31.0	And now, today's guest.
1:33.0	If today I have a best-selling author, I'll have to ask him what his secrets are for selling 5 million copies of his book.
1:40.0	James Clear, how you doing, sir?
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