James Clear
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 May
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You'll be contributing to it.
Sure.
Okay, so good question.
I'm going to define a habit in a couple different ways.
So first way, if you were to talk to an academic or researcher, they're going to tell you habits are these automatic, mindless routines, things you do without even really thinking about it.
Brush your teeth, tie your shoes, put your pants on the same leg each time.
Like, you know, it's just these automatic, mindless behaviors.
And it is true that there are many habits that are like that throughout the day.
But there's, I think, a different type of way that we use the word habit to describe most things.
Like if I were to ask you, Mel, what are some habits you're going to work on?
You're not going to say stuff like that.
You're going to say, I'm trying to get in the habit of meditating every morning, or I want to get in the habit of writing every day, or going to the gym three days a week, or whatever.
Yes.
All of them.
All of them, James.
All of them.
That's more like a routine.
You know, in a technical academic sense, it's not automatic the way that brushing your teeth might be.
But what you mean is I want to do it consistently and, you know, regularly.
And so most of Atomic Habits is about that stuff.
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