SNR #249: James Clear - Habits & Behaviour Change
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On his blog James primarily writes on how we can create better habits, make better decisions, and live better lives. He combines ideas from a wide range of disciplines including biology, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and more.
He is the author of Atomic Habits, the creator of the Habits Academy, a weightlifter, and a travel photographer in over 30 countries.
In This Episode We Discuss
- Where James’ interest in habits stemmed from
- The meaning behind “Atomic Habits”
- Where to start when deciding what habits to change?
- How do we stick we these new habits?
- How to help others (clients/patients) build new habits
- Environment design: things that act as obstacles that we may not be aware of
- Preventing loss of momentum when schedule or environment is thrown off, for example shift work or travel
- How long to build a new habit? And does it matter?
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| 0:00.0 | For the first three stages, cue, craving, and response, all three need to be present at the same time for you to take an action in the first place. |
| 0:20.0 | If you don't see the cue or you |
| 0:22.5 | don't notice a cue, then it won't be obvious to you. You won't be aware of it. You won't be |
| 0:26.9 | prompted to do the behavior. If you don't have a craving, you don't predict that it will be |
| 0:32.2 | useful for you or if you should take that action, then you'll have no motivation to act. |
| 0:38.3 | And then, of course, it's too difficult for you to do. |
| 0:40.9 | You know, it doesn't matter how many times you look at a basketball. |
| 0:43.4 | You want to dunk the basketball. |
| 0:45.2 | If you can't jump that high, then it's not going to happen. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. As always, I am your host, |
| 1:08.5 | Danny Lennon. Thank you so much for taking the time out to listen to the show again today. |
| 1:14.0 | And in just a few moments, we're going to be getting into this week's discussion with James Clear, |
| 1:18.6 | where we're going to be talking all about habits and behavior change, whether that's for ourselves, |
| 1:23.8 | trying to make new habits, or whether we're trying to help instill certain behavior changes |
| 1:29.3 | in other people we may be working with. |
| 1:31.3 | Before I get into more of James' background, just want to again make an announcement before we get in. |
| 1:37.3 | For those you interested in coming to Sigma Nutrition Radio Live, it's going to be happening November 24th in Dublin, Ireland. Tickets are available now |
| 1:46.3 | up on Sigma Nutrition.com. And on the day, I'm going to be joined by four experts in the |
| 1:52.0 | field of nutritional science, namely Martin MacDonald, Dr. James Morton, Dr. Nicholas, Dr. Nicola Gess, |
| 1:57.8 | and Dr. Kirsty Elliott Sale, who are going to be discussing a whole host of cool topics with me and talking really about how do we take this cutting edge research and apply that in the real world and what does this practically mean for changes we can make with dietary interventions. |
| 2:14.6 | All the details are up on sigma nutrition.com. So if you haven't heard |
| 2:19.1 | about the event yet or haven't looked at any of the details, go and check them out. And if there's |
| 2:23.2 | any chance you can make it to Dublin that weekend, then I think you'll know it's going to be something |
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