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.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.
Appearances
So here's an interesting one that one of my readers uses.
Saving money is an interesting and there's an interesting category of habits, which are things that you basically don't do.
And then you need to feel good about it.
Like saving money is basically when I don't spend is when I'm achieving this goal.
And, you know, it's like not playing video games or don't drink wine, like things like that are tricky to feel good about because you're just resisting doing something.
So I thought this was a clever solution.
I have this one reader, he and his wife wanted to eat out less, spend less money eating out at restaurants and cook at home more.
But again, if you just, well, we're not going to go out to eat tonight, that doesn't really feel great.
So what they came up with was they opened a separate savings account and they labeled it trip to Europe.
And then anytime that they stayed home, they would move 20 or 50 bucks or whatever over that they were going to spend that night.
They move that over to the account.
And what they get in the moment is the feeling of, oh, we're building toward this vacation that we want to go on.
And then at the end of the year, they took the money and put it toward the trip.
And so they found a way to take something that usually doesn't have much of a benefit
and give it a positive association a positive feeling and so that was part of their system for saving money or for not eating out was well first we're going to move the money over and then we're going to choose what recipe recipe are we making tonight and then we go into the kitchen and prep it whatever and so it's just a simple couple steps but it makes it a lot more enjoyable what about a system for eating healthier
Eating healthier is interesting and it's a tricky one.
I think it provides a good example of people will say something that they think is simple, but it's actually not that simple.
They think they're making it easy and simple, but they need to scale it down even more.
So let's say somebody says, all right, I'm just gonna focus on one habit, I'm just gonna try to eat healthy.
Well, you know, what is involved in that, right?
Showing 961–980 of 1,852 · page 49 of 93
← Previous
Next →