Best Ways to Build Better Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear

Habits are solutions to the recurring problems in our environment. Let's say you get done with a long day of work, you come back, you're kind of exhausted. That happens, you know, frequently. It's a recurring problem that you face. How do you solve that problem?

One person might solve it by going for a run for 30 minutes, another person might solve it by playing video games for 30 minutes, another person might solve it by smoking a cigarette. They all are trying to solve that same core problem. What you find is that, you know, you get to be 20 or 25 or 28 and a lot of the solutions that you have to these recurring problems that you face are solutions that you inherited or that you saw modeled by your parents or your friends or just, you know, whatever you have interfaced with throughout your short life so far. As soon as you realize that your solutions may not be the best solution, it's now your responsibility to try to figure out a different way to do it.

Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is James Clear. James Clear is the author of Atomic Habits and one of the world's foremost experts on how to build rock solid habits that better your physical and mental health work and relationships. Today we discuss how to build a habit and how to break bad habits as fast and durably as possible.

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