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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Can't write those anymore, so that shifted.

Then I worked on the book for three years.

Now, for the last five years, I've been writing a newsletter once a week that's much shorter, but...

At no point in there do I feel like my writing habit failed.

Just because I'm not writing two articles a week anymore doesn't mean that, I don't know, I screwed up or something.

The habit just needed to change shape based on the season that I was in.

And I think we should all give ourselves permission for our habits to shift based on the season that we're facing.

Yeah, I think knowing which season you're in right now is a really helpful thing.

There's a certain, there are like some questions I like to ask just for self-awareness.

They help bubble up some insights about yourself that then lead to some discoveries about maybe how I should shift my habits or whatever.

So some of the questions I like, one is, what am I optimizing for?

Different people optimize for different things.

You will probably optimize for different things at different points in your life.

Sometimes you optimize for making money.

Sometimes you optimize for free time or creative freedom.

Sometimes you optimize for family.

But whatever it is, the answer is probably very personal to you and the season that you're in.

So what am I optimizing for?

Second question is, what season am I in right now?

So we already talked about that.

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