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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Like if you're currently eating a lot of meals out or ordering a lot of meals, well, first you need to decide what you're going to make.
You need a grocery shopping habit, so you got to get the stuff.
You need some meal prep habits.
Maybe you even need new skills, like do you need knife skills or like learn how to do some stuff that maybe you didn't know how to do before.
after you make the meal you have a bunch of dishes that need to be cleaned so now you need to develop like a cleaning habit of washing those so there's actually like six or seven things that are all separate habits so i would say you can try to scale this down okay and start easy on yourself and maybe you know for like let's take doing the dishes for example maybe for the first week you just eat off of paper plates and no it's not super sustainable it's not the thing you want to do forever but you're trying to take one element out of the equation so you make it easier for yourself to do it um
Another example that I thought was interesting, I talked to one woman who she took this idea of, we talked about earlier, what would this look like if it was fun?
So she wanted to start eating healthier and bring her lunch into work each day.
But she realized making a salad didn't sound that fun to her.
And so she came up with this phrase that she called a party in a bowl.
Yeah.
and so she would make a salad but she would do like all kinds of wild things at the start like she would chop up snickers bars and throw them in or she would like crumble potato chips on top or whatever she just wanted it to feel like a party in a bowl and she did that for the first like two weeks or month and then after a month of bringing her lunch in she was like okay now i'm actually making it every morning um then she was like how can i make this healthier um how can i you know improve the quality of this
Right.
A little salt.
Texture.
Seems good.
But, you know, how do you make it fun?
How do you increase the odds that you master the art of showing up?
That's the first hurdle to clear.
If you start with perfection as the bar, it becomes really hard to get started.
Yes.
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