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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Or I have the habits that I want to have, but I'm cast out, I'm ostracized, I'm criticized.
A lot of the time, the desire to belong will overpower the desire to improve.
And so as best as possible, you need to get those two things aligned.
And I think the way to do it is you want to join groups where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.
Because if your desired behavior is normal, as you make friendships and build relationships in that group, you're going to soak up so many big and little habits from the people that are part of that group.
We all belong to multiple groups or multiple tribes.
Some of them are large, like what it means to be American or what it means to be French.
Some of them are small, like what it means to be a neighbor on your street or a member of the local CrossFit gym or a volunteer at the elementary school.
But all of those groups, large and small, have a set of expectations for how you act.
You know, like take the neighbor on the street example.
If I walk outside and look at my neighbor's house and they're mowing the lawn, I might think, oh, I need to cut the grass too.
And you might stick to that habit for...
five years or 10 years, however long you live in the house.
Like we wish we had that level of consistency with our other habits.
And why do you do it?
Partially you do it because it feels good to have a clean lawn, but mostly you do it because you don't want to be the sloppy one who's like ruining how the neighborhood looks.
So you want to join groups where your desired habits align with the expectations of the group so that you don't have to run against that friction.
One of the best things that I ever did in my entrepreneurial career.
So I have no authors in my family, no entrepreneurs in my family.
But I looked around and I said, who are some other people that are doing the thing that I want to do?
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