[ 💭 ] Reminders from James Clear, Robert Waldinger, & Nate Zinsser
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this special holiday compilation episode, we're featuring highlights from three of our most impactful interviews.
Join us as we revisit conversations with Robert Waldinger on social fitness from "The Good Life," Nate Zinsser's practical exercises for mental resilience from "The Confident Mind," and James Clear's insights on systems versus goals from "Atomic Habits."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence, a show about chasing, what truly matters. |
| 0:05.1 | My name is Patrick Cohnies. |
| 0:06.2 | Thank you so much for joining us this fine week and happy new year to you. |
| 0:12.4 | This week, Ben and I are taking a little bit of all in all for the holidays, but we've got |
| 0:16.6 | something cool for you. |
| 0:17.8 | We've got snippets from interviews that we've done in the past. |
| 0:21.5 | We don't do a ton of interviews. We certainly did a little bit more in years past. |
| 0:25.7 | Ben and I are talking about do we want to bring them back? So let me know. Let me know. |
| 0:30.2 | And we'll see what we can do. But this time around this week, we've got two episodes. |
| 0:35.0 | The first episode today and the other one on Friday will be similar. |
| 0:39.7 | Today we're going to hear from Robert Waldinger, author of The Good Life, talking about social |
| 0:44.2 | fitness. Nate Zinzer, author of The Confident Mind, giving us some exercises we can all do |
| 0:49.5 | to build a more resilient mind. And lastly, certainly not least, Mr. James Clear, author of the wildly |
| 0:56.3 | popular atomic habits talking about prioritization and my systems are more valuable than goals. |
| 1:02.5 | You can get the full episodes. You can get the full interviews simply by searching chasing |
| 1:05.8 | excellence and their name in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you're listening to this right now, |
| 1:11.0 | the full episodes will pop up and they're all very, they're all good. These were, |
| 1:14.5 | these were really fun to go back through and just try to find some five or 10 minute clips, |
| 1:19.3 | but the whole interviews are wonderful and I highly recommend it. Two things before we get |
| 1:23.1 | into the episode. We've got a bunch of cool things coming on the website, including a few that are |
| 1:28.3 | dropping this week, a new 21-day challenge and some journal prompts that we built off of episodes |
| 1:34.1 | of the show. You can get them at chasingexcellance. email. The link to that is in the show notes. |
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