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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They can be good for filtering.
So if somebody comes to you with an opportunity and they say, hey, do you want to do this?
You can run it through your list of goals and say, well, does this get me closer to what I want or not?
Maybe it makes it easier to say yes or no to that.
But the vast majority of your time should be spent focused on building a better system.
Goals are good for people who care about winning once.
Systems are best for people who care about winning repeatedly.
If you really want to make progress and make it again and again, if you want to get high performance and keep the performance high, you need some set of systems, some collection of daily habits to keep you up there.
The other interesting thing that I realized is that the winners and the losers often have the same goals.
You know, if you have a job opening and 100 people apply, presumably every candidate has the goal of getting the job.
The goal is not the thing that determines the outcome.
It's presentation skills in the interview, who they know at the company, education, experience, like all sorts of things, right?
Or, you know, at the Olympics.
Presumably, every athlete who's competing has the goal of winning the gold medal.
You know, the goal is not the thing that determines the outcome.
Again, it's genetic ability, talent, coaching, strategy, how much sleep they got the night before, like all sorts of factors.
And so if the winners and the losers have the same goals, the goal cannot be the thing that makes the difference in their performance.
It has to be something else.
And that something else is the system.
It's their daily habits.
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