James Clear
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1,852 appearances
7 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 May
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And when they're in the wrong positions, building habits is harder.
I think that's what you did earlier.
Didn't you say you didn't like working out on your own, but you do like a class?
Yes.
So it's choosing a version of that habit that is fun and attractive to you.
A class is more attractive.
That's your reward for when you get done.
So, yeah, I think it definitely maps.
And you can imagine lots of versions of this.
I do think the obvious piece is often about knowing exactly when you're going to go or setting your clothes out the night before or having, you know, there's some kind of obvious element in your environment there.
The attractive piece is usually choosing a version of exercise that you're really excited about.
The easy piece, I think, can often be about scaling it down.
Exactly.
Rather than an hour, it can be for 10 minutes or whatever.
It's, you know, scaling down the scope of it.
And if you can do more, great, go ahead and do more.
But what you consider a success is the smaller version.
And then the reward in the beginning, a lot of the time, I think it looks like what you just described, which is it's the latte or it's the, you know, whatever the thing is.
Sure, which is great.
In the long run, sometimes it takes a decade or more, it can become the reinforcement of the identity that you want to have.
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