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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Maybe you need to change when you're inserting things.
For one person, putting the meditating right after a cup of coffee makes a lot of sense.
If you have three toddlers and you're trying to get pants on your four-year-old, that's not a good time to meditate.
So you need to find the right time of day to insert your habits and behaviors.
And that requires a little bit of experimentation.
Interestingly, I would say there's probably two things to focus on first.
The first is you probably need a habit of reflection and review.
Well,
What are the odds that if you keep your head down and you work really hard, that you're going to be working on the highest and best thing?
It's just so unlikely that out of all the things that you could be doing, that you're working on the best thing right now.
And so it's this interesting tension because on the one hand, having a great work ethic and working hard is really valuable in life.
And it does pay off in some sense.
You can't get results without working on things.
But
It can also become a crutch where if you like for myself, a lot of the time I know for many years, like if I had a problem, my solution was I'll just work my way out of it.
And that works for a little while, but at some point it breaks, you know, like you break yourself down.
And then also you can only work so much.
Like maybe if you really grinded, you could work 10% harder than you are right now, but you can't work a hundred percent harder or like a hundred X harder.
It's not possible.
But you could work on something else that gets you 100x the result if you're working on the right thing.
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