James Clear
speaker
1,852 appearances
7 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 May
James Clear’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's like an attitude, an approach of, can I try to find some small way to get better each day?
The math of it is just compound interest.
It's just a compounding curve.
And compound interest is almost always surprising what it turns into in the long run.
And the effects of your habits can also almost always be surprising what they can turn into.
Now, your habits are not exactly like a mathematical formula, right?
Like your life is not exactly like some equation that you're going to calculate.
But the principle of trying to find some small way to improve and trusting how that can accumulate and compound over time, that is very true.
And it also, I think, is...
Very much how it feels on a given day, which is the actions feel kind of insignificant on a daily basis.
They're very easy to overlook on a daily basis and very surprising what they turn into, good and bad, a year or two or three from now.
And so it's really about mastering those small daily actions and what that can lead us to in the long run.
You'd be surprised if you work on almost anything consistently for, say, two years, you're almost guaranteed to be in the top, you know, one to 5% of the population on it.
I mean, nobody else is spending that amount of time on it.
So that doesn't mean that you're going to play in the NBA if you practice basketball for two years, but it does mean you will be a much better basketball player.
Yeah, so I grew up in a family that played lots of different sports, and I played baseball for a long time.
And when I was in high school, I suffered this really serious baseball injury where I was hit in the face with a baseball bat.
And it was an accident.
A classmate of mine took a swing, and the bat came out of his hands and rotated through the air and struck me right between the eyes, broke my nose, shattered both eye sockets,
broke the bone behind my nose, kind of deeper inside your skull.
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