James Clear
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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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Those have been much harder for me to give up.
The way that I think about it is...
I like to ask myself this question of what season am I in right now?
You know, and life has a lot of different seasons.
Sometimes there can be all kinds of reasons that seasons shift.
You know, maybe it's you get married or you have a kid or maybe you move to a city or start a new job.
I was just talking to a mom who she just became an empty nester.
And she's like, you know, for 25 years, I've been taking care of these kids.
Now, all of a sudden, nobody's here.
Like, what season am I in?
And what I've slowly learned, I can be a slow learner in a lot of ways, is that
when your seasons change your habits often need to change and i found you know for me i a lot of the time i'll have a season shift and then i keep trying to force fit my old habits into this new season it takes me 18 months to realize hey something needs to change and i think this is an important conversation to have about habits because people don't say this explicitly but a lot of the time when people are focused on their habits and they start something new
they don't say it to themselves, but they're kind of thinking in the back of their mind, what would it look like to be successful at this?
Oh, well, I would just do this habit forever.
And if I'd stopped doing it at some point, that must mean that I failed or I quit or something like that.
I don't think it has to be like that at all.
You know, like take my writing habit, for example.
For the first three years, I wrote two articles a week.
Those were about 2,000 words each.
Then I signed the book deal for Atomic Habits, Season Changes.
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