James Clear
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 May
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It's about how do we pick these big, important things in our lives and do them with greater consistency and frequency.
Well, you know, a lot of the conversation about habits kind of frames things that way.
You know, like if you hear people say, oh, you know, oh, I wish I just had the discipline to follow through on this.
Or, hey, maybe if you really wanted to do it, then you would follow through.
You know, maybe if you really wanted to do it, you would have more willpower or discipline or grit.
And, you know, I don't want to totally dismiss discipline and willpower and grit like they're all very important qualities in life.
But I don't know that that answer is quite right.
You know, I think many people, I bet, you know, most people genuinely do want to improve, genuinely do want to perform at a higher level, genuinely would like to have better results.
So what I would say is, look, if you're struggling to improve, the problem isn't you.
The problem is your system.
You know, we don't change not because we don't want to change, but because we have the wrong system for change.
And if you can have the right system, the right elements in place, then improving becomes much easier.
A system is just a collection of habits.
Oh, that's it?
It can be really small habits, but it's a collection of habits that are all oriented toward the same outcome.
This is one of the key ideas in the book.
And it's just this idea that tiny changes add up to a surprising or remarkable degree.
So the math of this, if you get 1% better each day for a year, so 1.01 to the 365th power, you get 37.78 times better by the end of the year.
If you get 1% worse, so 0.99 to the 365th power, you drive yourself almost all the way down to zero.
I think it's 0.03.
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