#2: Change Your Habits, Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life with James Clear

20/12/2020 1h 3min
#2: Change Your Habits, Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life with James Clear

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Episode Synopsis

How can we apply habits to create success in our lives?
On today’s episode, I interview the Author of “Atomic Habits”, James Clear.  Anytime I come across anyone who has read this book, has been completely blown away by it.  It is such a fantastic book and is incredibly easy to read and apply.  With James' insights & knowledge he shares, he makes success feel possible.
 
In today’s episode we discuss:
 
How habits are created?
How to form new habits to get the results we want.
How we execute a 4-step pattern every time we perform a habit which includes; cue, craving, response & reward. 
How to change one’s habits.
What habit stacking is.
The power of the 1% rule.
The compounding interest of applying habits in one’s life.
Jame’s definition of “Limitless Potential”.

 
 
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TIMESTAMPS
 
00.20 - Introduction
00.50 - Why did James write the book ‘Atomic Habits’?
03.30 - Why the name ‘Atomic Habits’ for the book?
04.50 - Why focus on habits when one is changing their life?
06.35 - What does James think of social media and how it impacts on people’s habits?
09.30 - How do habits work?
15.00 - Why has our brain not evolved?
17.30 - How can you be aware if a habit is effective or not?
19.50 - How can you measure if these changes will be beneficial or negative?
22.45 - What is the mindset of a successful person?
26.20 - What is the ‘1 percent’ & the compounding effect of applying small changes?
29.50 - What is habit stacking?
31.40 - When James was a kid, what did he want to do?
32.30 - How did James recover from his injury when he was 15?
36.15 - How does James manage through days where he doesn’t follow through with habits, and how to manage through this?
40.00 - What habits & systems can be applied to strengthen relationships?
42.30 - What are things that people can apply if they are in an environment that they can’t control?
47.20 - Depression and how habits can help.
50.30 - The difference between ‘I have to’ to ‘I get to’
51.25 - What is the biggest challenge most people face?
54.00 - What is a starting point when changing your habits?
56.50 - Finishing statements & where to find James online.
57:40 - James definition of “Limitless Potential”.