James Clear
speaker
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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If you take a step back, what you realize is he was mastering the art of showing up.
He was becoming the type of person that went to the gym four days a week, even if it was only for five minutes.
And that's the different form of measurement there.
He's not measuring the results.
He's measuring, did I show up or not?
And that gives him something else to win on in the early days.
I think this is a pretty deep truth about habits, something that people often overlook, which is a habit must be established before it can be improved.
Habit must be established before it can be improved.
You have to standardize before you optimize.
How often in our lives do we try to optimize things before we get started?
You know, you're so busy finding the perfect sales strategy, the best workout plan, the ideal diet to follow.
You're right.
You want to optimize everything from the start.
Right.
That's exactly it.
I call it the difference between motion and action.
So motion are things that make you feel like you're making progress.
So I'm gonna look up a trainer that maybe can help me at the gym.
Doesn't matter how many times you look up trainers in your area, it's not gonna do anything to get you fit.
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