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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The third one can be a little bit cutting, but it's if I call it like that, it's kind of like the alien test or something.

Imagine that an alien comes down from outer space, right?

It's going to follow you around throughout your day.

Can't speak your language, can't communicate to you.

If it could only see your actions and not hear your words, what would it say your priorities are?

The interesting thing, I think, especially about smart people is you can come up with a good excuse for most things.

You have a very good reason for why things aren't happening.

And so it's very easy for you to talk your way out of why things didn't occur.

But the alien can't hear you.

It doesn't care.

It's only looking at what you're spending your time on.

And it's just a nice way to kind of level set and, you know, see, okay, I say things are a priority, but how am I actually spending my time?

First of all, it matters because it's doable.

You know, you really only have a certain amount of time each day that you can work with.

Everybody says, oh, you have the same 24 hours in a day, but it's even less than that.

I think a more useful way to frame it is how many hours per day are under your control?

There's very few, you know, there's very few.

And so really, it's about what do you do with those one or two hours, you know, maybe three, I don't know.

But there's, you know, how many are really under your control.

And so that amount of time is what you have to work with.

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