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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Try to poke the holes in your argument.

And then you're back.

We're back to optimism again.

We want everybody on board and feel like we've got the right attitude going into it.

So two things here.

The first is some of this depends on how you're measuring things.

It can really be helpful to pick a different form of measurement.

So if you take like going to the gym, what's the common measurement?

Everybody's like, what's the scale say?

And how do you look in the mirror?

That's what everybody's measuring.

But let's forget about that.

Measure it in a totally different way.

So this reader, his name's Mitch, and I mentioned him in Atomic Habits.

When he first started going to the gym, so he lost over 100 pounds.

He's kept it off for more than a decade now.

And when he first started going, he had this strange little rule for himself where he wasn't allowed to stay for longer than five minutes.

So he'd get in the car, drive to the gym, get out, do half an exercise, get back in the car, drive home.

And it sounds silly.

You're like, this is not going to get him the results that you want.

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