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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Here's another way to define it.
A habit is a solution to a recurring problem in your environment, right?
So it's a solution to a recurring problem that you face.
Let's say, for example, you come home from work and it's 5.30 and you're feeling exhausted and tired from a long day, right?
That is a recurring problem that is going to happen throughout the weeks and months that your brain has to figure out how to solve.
And for one person, maybe they solve it by scrolling on Instagram for 30 minutes.
For another person, the way they solve it is maybe they smoke a cigarette.
For a third person, maybe the way they solve it is they go for a run.
And you can see that some of these solutions are healthier than others, but they're all solving the same root problem, which is I feel stressed and exhausted and tired after a long day, and I want to find a way to reset and kind of change my energy.
And...
Early in your life, I think particularly in your 20s, you may have this realization where the solutions that you have to the problems that you face are kind of things that you inherited or you picked up from your parents.
You know, what are the odds that the first way that you learn to solve this problem is the best way?
Mathematically speaking, it's very unlikely that the way that your current solutions to the problems that you face are the best solutions.
Yeah, and I think the first step is not to judge yourself for it or to feel guilty about it.
You don't need to feel bad about it.
It's almost like sometimes I try to look at my habits almost like I'm going to the zoo.
You know how you go and look at an animal and you're like, oh, how interesting that they would do that.
You know, like, oh, isn't that silly that they behave in that way?
You kind of look at yourself with that lens.
You're like, oh, okay, interesting that I'm doing this.
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