James Clear
speaker
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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James Clear, what are your parting words?
No matter what the habit is that you're trying to build, it's easy to talk yourself out of it because you know that the results aren't going to be good right away.
But your favorite athlete's first workout was just as bad as yours.
Your favorite chef's first meal was just as bad as yours.
Your favorite writer's first sentence was just as bad as yours.
You need to keep going.
you need to do the early low stakes stuff to prepare for the high stakes stuff, to build the capacity and the ability to do the other things.
And so don't overlook the small moments that you have each day.
Every day has an opportunity built into it.
You know, whatever age you are right now, your future self would love to be it.
When you're 70, you would give anything to go back and be 60 again and have the opportunity of those next 10 years.
And you should use that as best as you can.
And whether that's a small moment, like a little dance recital or some stupid little speech that you're going to give to your friends or whatever it is, try to do it well.
You know, whatever thing that you have in front of you, try to do it well.
If you do it well, if you take advantage of the moment that you have, you earn the right to do more things.
You prove to yourself that you have high standards and that you take advantage of the opportunities that are in front of you.
And you put yourself in a better position to gain more opportunities.
We all have varying degrees of luck or circumstances or misfortune or whatever that come to us in life.
A lot of things that we ask for and a lot of things that we don't ask for.
But all you can do is try to use the moments that you have to the best of your ability.
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