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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What am I working on?

The motivation is actually quite easy if you're very clear about what the most important thing is.

But usually people have seven things that they say are important to them.

And then it's not easy because you're being pulled in all these different directions.

The second thing is some of the best advice that I got early on in my business career was try things until something comes easily.

And I think you can apply that advice to almost anything.

Try things until something comes easily.

And the point is...

There's this common refrain of try, try, try again.

If things don't work, try, try, try again.

I think instead it would be better if it was phrased, if things don't work, try, try, try differently.

You need to keep trying.

You need to keep showing up, but you need to try different lines of attack.

Different things work better than others.

And so by trying a range of options, especially early in a process, you put yourself in a much better position to succeed.

So here, I'm going to try to tie all this together.

So if I could add one thing to Atomic Habits that wasn't in the book, it would be this question of what would this look like if it was fun?

What would this look like if it was fun?

What would it look like if meditating was fun?

What would it look like if going to the gym was fun?

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