Atomic Habits An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear is the author of Atomic Habits and one of the world's foremost experts on how to build rocksolid habits that better your physical and mental health, work, and relationships.

Looking back on, you know, now Atomic Habits sold 25 million copies.

All of Atomic Habits is an answer to that question.

Atomic Habits ... It's a super impressive book and it's done incredibly well for all the right reasons. It's one of the bestselling books of all time and the highestrated habits book of all time.

If you haven't already read Atomic Habits, you definitely should.

It's called Atomic Habits by James Clear. And it's just about how to create and stick to habits easily.

You're not lazy, you just haven't formulated the right habit of the thing you want to do that works for your brain. And so here's how.

I've been falling asleep to it, which is really, I feel like that's helpful if my brain absorbs it because I'm falling asleep.

But now that I'm listening to atomic habits, I get why I never achieved those goals.

Atomic habits is this cult classic at this point.

He's probably just like reading Atomic Habits and the 48 Laws of Power.

No, he should read though.

I keep thinking about this section in atomic habits where James clear talks about the importance of or the power of attaching identity to the kind of changes that you want to make.

my good friend James Clear, he's the author of the Seminal Atomic Habits.

And I'd like to start with a quote from James Clear because I think this quote really sums up what a morning routine is and then we're going to jump into kind of deeper reasons why they're so important. So James Clear wrote the book Atomic Habits he's like the go-to guy in terms of synthesizing habit research and making it understandable.

His name is James Clear. He wrote Atomic Habits. It's the book that synthesizes everybody's research on habits.

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We're familiar with The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg or Atomic Habits by James Clear, these are great books that I think have done a nice job popularizing this idea of a habit loop

more than any other book, this is the book that has fundamentally changed my approach to behavior change and habits. What book am I talking about? Well, I'm talking about none other than Atomic Habits.

And even if you've read Atomic Habits, you need to hear the conversation today.

I have bought Atomic Habits and pressed it into people's hands more times than I can count.

I'm going to read to you from Atomic Habits, page 27.

Atomic Habits has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 164 consecutive weeks.

my good friend James Clear, who is the New York Times bestselling author of the global blockbuster Atomic Habits, talks about this as one of the top experts in the world on habit formation and behavior change.

James Clear is one of the leading experts on habit formation. He wrote the number one New York Times bestselling smash hit, Atomic Habits.

James Clear told this story when he was on the Mel Robbins podcast, and we were talking all about the findings from Atomic Habits and some interesting research on changing your behavior.

If I could get the number four, Atomic Habits. What are the small things we do every day to just change the habits that have really kept us and held us back?

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It's about the habitual learning about atomic energies within the earth and also the biosphere of the world and universe.

Atomic Habits is a great book that I read.

And I think Atomic Habits talks about like keeping your identity small.

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I'm so proud of him but it is a great book and the whole concept there was not I'm gonna grip my teeth and change my habits. Basically the core thesis apart at least part of it on atomic habits is I'm gonna change my identity.

This idea of I'm gonna start saying this is who I am.

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James Clear's Atomic Habits has got four steps to embedding a habit. I often miss the fourth one.

It's a vessel for self-improvement disguised as a money making enterprise that it's the biggest driver of your personal growth because it comes in and just twisty nipples and finds all of the spots that you've got your trigger points and it will force you to level up and to learn those skill sets and to grow.

Atomic Habits by James Clear, one of the best selling nonfiction books maybe ever but certainly of the last five years, probably the best selling nonfiction book over the last five years except for maybe some autobiographies.

And this will be familiar to people that have read James Clear's book. The idea is you take the habit that you want to form.

And before you know it, James talks so much about like identity based habit change, which I guess maybe one of the remaining two or maybe not.

Sir David Brailsford who's known for his marginal gains theory and is written about in the first chapter of James Clear's book Atomic Habits said to me yet the the small gains the making the water bottle just a little bit bigger and the pillow soft are matted but the thing no one gives us credit for thing no one talks about is I took over a team that were depressed psychologically they were down and out they didn't want anything and by finding tiny little gains quote we felt like we were going somewhere that psychology of momentum is the greatest force in business.

It's still like the number one New York Times bestseller.

It's phenomenal. It's a powerhouse and rightly so, right?

As soon as he said, you do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems,

the atomic habits James Clear advice of just 1% better every day focus on the what you're going to iterate on day after day after day is a great way to operate that really really is.

You fall to your systems you don't rise to your goals however it only works in service of something that you care about because if you don't know the direction that you're going in each of the different iterations could take you in the wrong direction.

My favourite is actually from James in Atomic Habits. And I think it's the best takeaway. ... and his rule is never miss two days in a row.

Atomic Habits, by James Clear, phenomenal book, fantastic writer, but when he said, you don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.

as far as I can see, this is one of the issues, that came, in the wake of Atomic Habits, by James Clear, phenomenal book, fantastic writer, but, when he said, you don't rise to the level, of your goals, you fall to the level, of your systems

But there's a cool story from Atomic Habits by James Clear. And, uh, I think it was the lead coach of maybe the Chinese weightlifting team, or maybe this is Ben Bergeron's Chasing Excellence.

It was atomic habits for the 1800s.

My favorite out of all of atomic habits, bestselling personal development book of all time. The best thing that came out of that for me was never miss a habit two days in a row. He says one missed habit is a mistake. Two missed habits is the start of a new habit.

Atomic Habits by James Clear, Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money. I've spoken to each of these guys individually.

James Clear got this right in Atomic Habits where he said you don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.

In atomic habits by James clear, he talks, I think it's like the head of the Chinese weightlifting team and they're super advanced. They're getting these kids from like five years old. He said the guys that are world champions are prepared to come in and do the boring things without complaining.

And obviously James Clear and Atomic Habits...

James Clear's Atomic Habits, very story-heavy.

My favorite rule from Atomic Habits by James Clear is never miss two days in a row.

Yes. It seems to me that ever since James Clear's book, Atomic Habits, this has been something everyone's thinking about, right? That your outcomes are a lagging measure of your inputs.

It's not a single thrust. It's not the psychology of money. It's not atomic habits. It's not high agency. It's not the subtle art of not giving a fuck.

reading Atomic Habits for the first time was nourishing

For example, atomic habits had a huge impact on me.

James Clear has been on my show... Best habit book of all time, Atomic Habits. Of all of the things, there's only two that have really, really, really stuck. This is the best rule when it comes to habits. Never miss two days in a row.

from Atomic Habits is it's easier to build a new habit if you stack it on top of the habit you're already doing.

one particular thing you wrote called Atomic Habits is one of the bestselling books in history.

And it's funny because the book has shaped tens and tens and tens of millions of lives.

reading your book reading other reading atomic habits doing a lot. So, you know doing what I can in this time to become better.

A book I was like either like atomic habits or like getting things done but it talks about how like goal we talk so much about goals as a society and it's like don't get me wrong goals are important but like people who have goals who achieve them and people who have goals who don't like the difference is not having a goal.

like one of my favorite books, Atomic Habits, ... James Clear says the key to willpower is not putting yourself in situations where you need to exercise it frequently.

Funny enough, last night when I was talking, I bought him the book Atomic Habits a few weeks ago. And I was like, I don't want you to read this book. And last night I was like, I bought you that book and you won't even read it. He does these little things, but it's like I have to tell him or cry about it for it to happen.

Funny enough, last night when I was talking, I bought him the book Atomic Habits a few weeks ago. And I was like, I don't want you to read this book. And last night I was like, I bought you that book and you won't even read it. He does these little things, but it's like I have to tell him or

we will never rise to the level of our goals. We will fall to the level of our systems.

and the self-help book Atomic Habits.

James Clear is the world's number one habit expert, the author of the New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits, which has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.

You have literally written the book on how to change one's habits. Could you tell us about how to think about making changes that then might support new resolutions?

The easier, more convenient, frictionless, simple a habit is, the more likely it is to be performed. And then the fourth and final law is to make it satisfying. More satisfying or enjoyable a habit is, just like we were talking about a minute ago, whatever you feel like is rewarding or pleasurable, the more likely you are to repeat in the future. So make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying.

And Atomic Habits covers that in greater detail.

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James Clear Atomic Habits, if you haven't read it, it's great that the premise is simple.

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There was an episode of this show which I'll find and put in the show notes too with the guy who wrote atomic habits James Claire James Claire so many years ago and he talked about the case safe or just basically the idea of locking up snacks and we got an enraged email from a listener saying that is sending a really unhealthy message about our relationship to food in our bodies and I remember at the time being dismissive but I actually I don't have the rage at all but I've come to believe that my past self was wrong on this to be dismissive because I give myself full permission to eat whatever the hell I want and I don't think declaring certain foods sinful is healthy and you're not in your head in agreement so I'm not lecturing you.

Then I have them read the opening chapter or two of Atomic Habits, which is all about, you know, it's a very behaviorious view of self change, and if to set up reinforcements in small steps.

It's been you know talked about in a number of best selling books before and and well documented by psychologists um books like Power of Habit and Atomic Habits that talk about this beautifully I think...

James Clear, the author of the bestselling book Atomic Habits, has a whole Masterclass about how to develop small habits that can change your life.

It's James Clear, Atomic Habits.

I think a lot of people at this point who consume this type of media probably read atomic habits and James clearly and James probably does the best job of talking about this it's casting votes for your future self.

atomic habits and James clearly ... this it's casting votes for your future self.

James Clear writes about this so beautifully in Atomic Habits.