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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You know, like...
If you sit on the couch and you ruminate on how things aren't going well in your life, you feel kind of lethargic, that's easy to be low energy and for things to not go well right then.
But you start moving a little bit, even if it's just stretched on the floor for five minutes, now you start to move forward and things go a little bit faster.
Habit stacking, I think habit stacking is a great approach for building habits.
It's a concept that comes from B.J.
Fogg.
He's a professor at Stanford.
And he had a great insight, which is habits tend to be easier to build or stick to if they're tied to a behavior that you're already doing.
So we all have habits that we already do, okay?
Like maybe you already make a cup of coffee every morning.
Yep.
And your new habit that you want to build is you want to start meditating, right?
So you can stack that new habit on top of the old one.
So your habit stack could be something like, after I make my morning cup of coffee, I will meditate for 60 seconds.
And then, you know, you can start to chain this together.
You could like create multiple.
So you could say, after I make my cup of coffee, I will meditate for 60 seconds.
After I meditate for 60 seconds, I will write my to-do list for the day.
After I write my to-do list for the day, I will prioritize them and start working on the first one or whatever.
And now you've got a little stack
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