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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That's probably doable.
And so you can see these two habits have very different activation energies.
They have very different amount of effort that they're requiring from you.
So scaling it down is choosing the thing that's easy to do that has small activation energy.
Do 10 instead of 100.
Instead of reading 30 books a year, it's read one page, right?
It's like stuff like that.
Scale it down.
There is something that can be tied to this or is related to this, which is a phrase that I feel like I remind myself of a lot, which is reduce the scope but stick to the schedule.
So there's so many times where the day kind of gets away from you.
You know, like things get busy.
Let's say you wanted to work out today and then you look up the clock and, you know, you were planning on doing an hour workout or 45 minutes and you only have 15 or 20 minutes.
In that moment, the conversation I used to have with myself was, well, I guess I don't have time to work out today.
And then you move on.
But instead, what I'm trying is to say, reduce the scope, but stick to the schedule.
And so I'll go down, I'll change in my workout clothes and go down to my basement and go down to this little home gym area that I have.
And maybe I only have 15 minutes and I can only do one set of squats, but that's what I do.
And in some ways, I feel like the bad days matter more than the good days.
You know, it's showing up on the days when it's not ideal.
It's showing up on the days when you don't have energy or time or capacity that keeps the habit alive.
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