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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is just how little bit of an edge you need to gain advantage or to have a different outcome than most people.

Six of those eight people didn't show up, not because of the workout.

The workout's the same as always.

It's because they didn't want to be uncomfortable for like five or 10 minutes, getting ready, getting through the rain, getting in the car.

It was just kind of gross enough that it let them ignore it.

And so in a lot of ways, what this all boils down to is getting started.

Are you willing to...

Get started.

Are you willing to be uncomfortable for three minutes?

And if you can get over that hump, then the rest of it kind of cascades naturally.

You write about the two minute rule.

What is that?

It's a really easy way to force yourself to get started.

I hope that you find all the ideas interesting and useful that we talk about today.

But if you can only remember one thing, the two-minute rule is a good thing to remember.

And I say that because it can be applied to pretty much any habit.

So you take whatever habit you're trying to build and you scale it down to something that takes two minutes or less to do.

So...

Yeah.

Meditate for 20 minutes becomes meditate for one minute.

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