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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And you can come up with all kinds of things like that.

Let me give you an example for habits.

So let's say that you want to start going to the gym.

And you're like, well, if this plan fails, where does it fail?

And it might fail because you don't know which gym you're going to use.

So you're like, all right, I'll pick one that's on the route of my commute each day.

So then you say, okay, it might fail because I don't have my gym clothes ready.

So you're like, all right, I need to set my clothes out the night before or have my gym bag ready early.

I had one person who they were like, I am going to the gym and I wish I could stick to it more, but this gym doesn't have a water fountain.

And so when I go there, I'm like, oh, I always forget to bring my water bottle.

And that's enough to make me be like, I'm not going to go because they don't have water fountain there.

And little points of friction like that sound kind of silly when you say it.

But you're like, yeah, that's a potential point of failure.

And you need to have a plan for getting a water bottle full and make sure that you bring that each day.

And so you start to check off these boxes of what are the things that can hold you back from this plan working.

And then you switch back to optimism because what you don't want is to go into this process feeling like you're doubting yourself.

That's not that attitude.

Just going to make it harder.

So you start with optimism.

You switch to pessimism.

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