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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Second season, I was a starter.
Third season, I was team captain.
Then fourth year, I was an academic All-American.
And that's like a five- or six-year arc from that stuff.
And I never played professionally.
But I look back on that, and I feel like I was able to maximize my potential.
And, you know, we all have things in life that we don't ask for.
And this was one for me.
It was one of the first things I said when I woke up the next day was I never asked for this.
But you have to get out of that self-pity loop.
It just does not serve you.
A bad attitude and self-pity makes every problem harder.
And so you're just layering on another challenge to the already challenging situation.
And so instead, I'd try to be as positive as I could about it and try to find things to improve each day.
And again, it took five or six years, but I think that process taught me a lot about building small habits and bouncing back from challenges.
And so eventually, 10 years later, when it came time to write the book,
I think the book is better because I struggled.
It was better because I had to go through that process.
And now I know, just like everybody else, how hard it is to build habits, how long it takes to make progress, and how challenging it can be to see the improvement that you've been wishing for.
And so I think those struggles ended up resulting in better material.
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