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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I was air-cared to the hospital, and I was in a medically-induced coma overnight.
And then the next day, my vitals had kind of stabilized to the point where they could release me from the coma.
And it was a really long road back.
Couldn't drive a car for the next nine months.
When I went to my first physical therapy session, I was practicing basic motor patterns, like walking in a straight line, had double vision for weeks.
So it took a while.
And
all i wanted you know i was a teenager i was 16 17 years old all i wanted was to get back to being this normal young healthy kid before you know be able to drive a car and go to baseball and play and whatever but it was a time in my life when i was forced to start small
I had to just focus on what can I do at this physical therapy session?
Am I making any progress from the last session to this one?
If I can't do anything physically, couldn't play baseball for about a year, then can I study and do well on this test or try to find some small win, some small improvement that I can make?
And all the things that we're about to talk about today, I would never have said it that way then.
Like I wouldn't have said, oh, I'm just trying to get 1% better.
You know, like I didn't have a language for it.
But it was an experience that forced me to realize how small actions can be and still be meaningful.
And that progress can take a long arc.
I barely played baseball in high school.
After the injury, I basically missed the whole next year.
I went to college.
First year, I came off the bench.
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