James Clear’s Ultimate Guide to Building Good Habits (Encore)

If you walk into most any gym and peek at their membership records, you'll find a telling pattern. Nearly 15% of all memberships start in January. By the time June rolls around, a staggering 80% of these aspiring gym rats will have hung up their towels. 80%! Why didn't their resolution stick?

I think it's because they never figured out how to turn their aspirations into habits. Friends, I refuse to let that happen to you, which is why today we're resharing one of my all-time favorite interviews, a conversation I had with James Clear about his book. atomic habits. He sorts up easy proven strategies that you can use to build good habits and break bad ones. Easy because they start with small incremental steps.

That's what makes them atomic. A quick fact check before we dive in. When I spoke to James at the end of 2023, his book had sold 15 million copies, so that's the number I cited at the beginning of the episode. Today, however, it's over 20 million. I cannot explain

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