Most Replayed Moment: The Mid-Year Reset - Atomic Habits Author On How To Get Back On Track
7/3/202628 min
Who do you want to be by the end of the year?
James Clear is the bestselling author of Atomic Habits, one of the world’s most influential books on habit formation, decision-making and personal growth.
In this moment, James Clear explains how to reset when you feel off track, choose the habits that actually move your life forward, and stop wasting energy on goals that no longer fit the season you’re in. He reveals exactly what is quietly shaping the person you’ll become in 6 months, and how to regain that control.
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First 90 secondsSteven Bartlett· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Earlier on when you said that ambitious people, they have lots of aspirations, lots of habits they wanna start. I was thinking about myself and thinking, there's probably 30 habits that I would like to acquire. I'd wanna be better at writing. I wanna be a runner. I wanna be better at speaking. I want to be a better friend and be more, um, attentive with my friends and make sure I text them on their birthdays and sh- you know.
James Clear· Guest0:23
Mm.
Steven Bartlett· Host0:23
All of these new habits that I wanna pursue. How does one know which one to aim for first? Is there a framework for knowing?
James Clear· Guest0:30
Yeah. There, there's some things that you can do. I don't think, um, to your point earlier about, uh, sometimes the riskiest things just take a long time making the decision. You know? If you... Maybe you should just pick one and work on it, and then you can get on to the next one. But I do think there's some level of strategy, which is a good place to start is by asking yourself which habits are upstream from other good things happening. So, for example, I know that i- if you were... Maybe the, maybe the question to start with is, when you live a good day, when you feel dialed in, when things are, like, rolling along well for you, what tends to be part of that day?
Steven Bartlett· Host1:02
Sleep.
James Clear· Guest1:03
You know? S- okay.
Steven Bartlett· Host1:04
Great.
James Clear· Guest1:04
So that's, you know... I would say for me, sleep, sleep is definitely one. I would say, uh, getting my workout in.
Steven Bartlett· Host1:09
Mm.
James Clear· Guest1:09
And usually reading and writing are a part of it, but I think I could just boil it down to reading. If I just read, like, 10 pages, that often sparks the writing. So like, uh, to m- reading is like the fuel for writing for me. So, so I could say get a workout in and read for five minutes or 10 minutes. Those are the two things that are part of a good day. And what happens is they're upstream from a lot