James Clear

And I do think there's some deeper lesson there about behavior change and about what drives human behavior, which is if you can visualize your progress in some way, maybe it's a chart on a screen, maybe it's an actual printout, maybe it's something that you actually see looking through lenses or something. But if you can actually visualize it, then the behavior often follows suit.

And that's why even simple strategies like a habit tracker, where you just put an X on each day, Seems very rudimentary, very basic, but it can still be meaningful because it gives you a way of visualizing your progress. So anyway, the glucose monitor is an interesting one.

And that's why even simple strategies like a habit tracker, where you just put an X on each day, Seems very rudimentary, very basic, but it can still be meaningful because it gives you a way of visualizing your progress. So anyway, the glucose monitor is an interesting one.

It's kind of like an adult version of I spy. Walk in, you're like, I spy the red thing. And then all the red stuff in the room lights up. Right now you're like, I spy water. And everywhere I go, that's what I see. And you find opportunities and you find ways to change it.

It's kind of like an adult version of I spy. Walk in, you're like, I spy the red thing. And then all the red stuff in the room lights up. Right now you're like, I spy water. And everywhere I go, that's what I see. And you find opportunities and you find ways to change it.

So let's talk about the second law. Yeah. So the second law is making it attractive. And I think there's a simple example I could give here, which is let's imagine that you wake up tomorrow and you're like, all right, I listened to this guy talk about habits all day today. So tomorrow's going to be the day I'm going to wake up and I'm going to go for a run.

So let's talk about the second law. Yeah. So the second law is making it attractive. And I think there's a simple example I could give here, which is let's imagine that you wake up tomorrow and you're like, all right, I listened to this guy talk about habits all day today. So tomorrow's going to be the day I'm going to wake up and I'm going to go for a run.

So you set your alarm for 6 AM and 6 AM rolls around, but your bed is warm and it's cold outside. And you're like, well, I'll just press snooze and sleep in. Like maybe I'll do it tomorrow. But if you rewind the clock and come back to today and you text a friend and you say, hey, you want to meet at the park at 615 and go for a run? Well, now 6 a.m. rolls around.

So you set your alarm for 6 AM and 6 AM rolls around, but your bed is warm and it's cold outside. And you're like, well, I'll just press snooze and sleep in. Like maybe I'll do it tomorrow. But if you rewind the clock and come back to today and you text a friend and you say, hey, you want to meet at the park at 615 and go for a run? Well, now 6 a.m. rolls around.

Your bed is still warm and still cold outside. But if you don't get up and go for a run, you're a jerk because you leave your friend at the park all alone. And so you've kind of simultaneously made it more attractive to get up and go for a run and less attractive to press snooze and sleep in. Now, you haven't made the run itself any easier. That's still going to be as difficult as it was before.

Your bed is still warm and still cold outside. But if you don't get up and go for a run, you're a jerk because you leave your friend at the park all alone. And so you've kind of simultaneously made it more attractive to get up and go for a run and less attractive to press snooze and sleep in. Now, you haven't made the run itself any easier. That's still going to be as difficult as it was before.

So the habit, the difficulty is kind of the same. But you have changed the calculus that's going on in your mind about like whether you should do this or not or how attractive it seems. So there are a bunch of examples, strategies like that and stuff I talk about in the book and that you could use to kind of make habits seem more attractive than they otherwise are.

So the habit, the difficulty is kind of the same. But you have changed the calculus that's going on in your mind about like whether you should do this or not or how attractive it seems. So there are a bunch of examples, strategies like that and stuff I talk about in the book and that you could use to kind of make habits seem more attractive than they otherwise are.

But that's sort of what it comes down to on a short-term basis for making habits attractive. On a long-term basis, I think it's about what we've already discussed about the social environment and being part of a tribe where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.

But that's sort of what it comes down to on a short-term basis for making habits attractive. On a long-term basis, I think it's about what we've already discussed about the social environment and being part of a tribe where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.

Because those behaviors become very attractive even a year or two or five from now if they help signal that you're part of the tribe.

Because those behaviors become very attractive even a year or two or five from now if they help signal that you're part of the tribe.

Yeah, I think the social side, the community side of it is the strongest piece of the whole thing. It's the part that's hardest for any other exercise program to replicate. That's for sure. It does. It gets people to stick to it. I mean, it becomes sounds extreme to call it a form of a religion, but it becomes kind of like that for them. I mean, the box is like their church in a lot of ways.

Yeah, I think the social side, the community side of it is the strongest piece of the whole thing. It's the part that's hardest for any other exercise program to replicate. That's for sure. It does. It gets people to stick to it. I mean, it becomes sounds extreme to call it a form of a religion, but it becomes kind of like that for them. I mean, the box is like their church in a lot of ways.

You know, they go six days a week instead of one day a week. There are a lot of strong community elements there. You also see crossfitters pick up a bunch of habits they didn't even expect.