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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And so for any project, this hypothetical question that you asked is, what if I have this big goal?

I have a business I want to launch.

I have an initiative I want to start.

I have whatever.

There's going to be many ways to do it.

And you need to have at least some time to sit and think each week and come back to saying, are we doing this the right way?

I think if you have two things in life, if you have a bias toward action and you really move fast,

And you continually revisit this question of what are we really trying to do here?

And is this the best way to do it?

If you can do those two things and you just keep doing them on repeat, you can really get a lot done in life.

But you need both.

And so that's the second thing I was going to mention is this bias toward actions, getting started.

It's finding some small way to move now.

My little saying that I try to remind myself of is don't rush, but don't wait.

I find that if I am in the mix, if I'm taking action, if I'm working on things, then that's great.

I need to be patient.

I need to let the results accumulate.

But if I'm not actually taking action, I'm not being patient.

I'm just waiting.

And nothing's going to happen in that case.

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