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Book · 2019 · Self-Help

Atomic Habits

An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

by James Clear · Recommended by 36 people on 10 podcasts

Why people recommend it

Atomic Habits by James Clear is a comprehensive, practical guide to building positive routines and breaking bad ones through small, incremental behavioral changes. Bill Powell praised the book on ChooseFI, sharing that he rereads it annually to refresh his personal goals and evaluate his habits. Nick Pollard mentioned the title on Modern Wisdom as a foundational text in the personal growth genre alongside other notable works. Angela Duckworth endorsed the book on No Stupid Questions, calling it exceptionally well-written, while Chris Williamson recommended it on the same podcast network for effective environment design. Community member Ashley shared on ChooseFI that she was reading the book for a third time because she loved its practical framework for achieving life goals. Brad Barrett also highlighted Clear's work on ChooseFI while discussing habit formation, and Chris Williamson later referenced the book's insights on marginal gains during a conversation with Steven Bartlett on Modern Wisdom.

Who recommended it

Chris Williamson — 60 mentions
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“If you read James Clear's Atomic Habits and you take his habit process to improve your life, does that mean that all of the thoughts and frames that were developed off the back of his habit structure aren't yours?”
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“Oh, that's like a that that is nourishing to me in a way that reading atomic habits for the first time was nourishing to me or listening to Peterson Tay tell the truth was nourishing to me and stand up straight with your shoulders back and clean your room.”
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“This, as far as I can see, is one of the issues that came in the wake of Atomic Habits by James Clear. Phenomenal book, fantastic writer.”
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“Atomic Kabits by James Clear. Morgan Hustell, The Psychology of Money. I've spoken to each of these guys individually. Mark said to me, he's like, 'The worst thing that I could have done was have a book that went that big'”
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“And I think that the James Clear approach of not focusing too much on goals and instead focusing on systems. You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.”
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“my favorite is actually from uh James in atomic habits”
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“why can't I just do it the same way as I do with James clear's Atomic habits James clear's Atomic habits has got four steps to embedding a habit”
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“read Atomic Habits by James CLE”
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“in James Clay's Atomic habits I think he interviews maybe the Chinese weightlift team's head coach”
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“is that in Tomic abits don't think it is not sure not one of his tweets”
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“Atomic Habits by James Clear, one of the best-selling non-fiction books maybe ever, but certainly of the last five years, probably the best-selling non-fiction book over the last five years except for maybe some autobiographies.”
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“sir David bford who's known for his marginal gains Theory and has written about in the first chapter of James K's book Atomic habits said to me yeah the the small gains the making the water bottle just a little bit bigger and the pillow softer mattered”
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“and what he means is that the James Clear Atomic habits idea of you know just focus on daily routines and you don't need to be outcome focused you just need to be iteration focused just do one day do one day do one day”
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“essentialism by Greg McEwen way of the superior man by uh David data Atomic Habits by James Clear”
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“my favorite rule from Atomic Habits by James Clear is never miss two days in a row and that is exactly the same as what you're talking about here”
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“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”
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“when james clear brought atomic habits out whatever three years ago or four years ago i think everybody thought right this is it i'm just going to focus on the process”
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“I thought this about um James clear's Atomic habits it was the bestselling non-fiction book in the world last year 20121 and it's great and he sold this book for whatever £8 on Kindle and 12 for a paperback”
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“and because you do not rise to the level of your goals you fall to the level of your systems became like a epitaph right that people would just it's going to my gravestone”
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“and you think when you learn that stat you're like me telling you that you need to go read atomic habits by james clear just doesn't cut the mustard”
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“so james clear says each action that you take is a vote for the future type of person that you want to be”
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“this is why james clear's atomic habits was so good because it wasn't just this rote memorization game of how to do habits it was illustrated with examples from team gb cycling or from the chinese weightlifting team or from a speed reader or from someone that knows 17 languages or something that it was illustrated with personal examples”
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“I had james clear's atomic habits in my head while i was reading it and i thought of you don't rise to the level of your skills you fall to the level of your attributes”
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“so it's a james clear atomic habits solution that you need to understand how habits are made and the process within which you can build them”
Discussed
“yet i think james clear in atomic habits he interviewed someone is it the head of the chinese weightlifting team”
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“james clear talks about this in atomic habits where he says if you kick a football one so you're a footballer well probably not if you do 100 kps are you a footballer”
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“i didn't do my 2019 new year's resolutions so like two years ago i didn't do those until i'd finally finished atomic habits which ended up being halfway through february”
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“and yet you can get atomic habits by james clear for a tenner”
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“what people read specifically in the self-development or non-fiction world the reason they read partly is for the enjoyment of reading the book but more so for the outcome and the new life that they think they're going to be able to achieve with the insights from rory sutherland's alchemy or james clay's atomic habits”
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“one of the things upon reading james clear's atomic abits last year um was this kind of identity-based change that i've really realized”
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“like which page in atomic habits is it that i need to turn to to like find the particular habit that i'm doing to do the whatever thing”
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“the explore versus exploit that james clear talks about in atomic habits when you're doing habit setting”
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“james clee has been on this show author of atomic habits my favorite book from the last couple of years and he says the same thing it's just like just show up”
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“There's no problem in the press with someone saying I read james clear's atomic habits though but there is a problem with someone saying I take dating advice”
Discussed
“and also going back to james clears it's part of the system of getting ready for bed right like you don't usually eat after you clean your teeth”
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“so there's this quote from atomic habits that James clears got I always come back to changing your habits often requires you to change your tribe”
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“first thing being the best books tell you a story that you already know is a universal atomic habits by james clear one of the best books that i've read over the last few years i knew everything that was in that book but no one had synthesized it put it across with those examples and put it in a”
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“There's a quote from James clears atomic habits where he spoke to a Chinese weightlifting coach and he said what separates the very very best lifters from everybody else and he says it's the lifters who can put up with boredom the most”
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“and from James clears atomic habits as well he talks about taking for you it would be you took six years to become an overnight success which is by the way what a great book he wrote”
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“but James clears atomic habits is one that books the trend you know that book absolutely will be 10 years 20 years time I think because it's just so so seminal it'll be as applicable in in a hundred years as it is today”
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“and the thing as well is on top of that your this bringing the example I got from James clear gather atomic cupboards and he was talking about Steffi Graf”
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“you know James clear atomic habits we do not rise to the level of our goals we fall to the level of our systems”
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“and you know anyone who's read James clears atomic habits from this year knows that you cannot be the best in your field at everything”
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“anyone who's read James Claire's book this year anyone who hasn't please go and read atomic habits because it's fantastic”
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“I was like, "Being honest, James, wasn't a massive amount that was new in Atomic Habits to me, but I've never seen it all put together in the same place and displayed with such wonderful examples.”
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“James Clear, Atomic Habits, probably probably the best book that I've read this year um in terms of non-fiction.”
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“oh that's why I've misread it in atomic atomic habits”
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“There's a quote in James clears atomic habit. It's a book which came out this year. James is a hobbit expert.”
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“and James clears atomic habits the fact that segmenting off time to do to go deep as Cal calls it on one particular task”
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“did a podcast recently with James clear you know the raw atomic habits and he was talking about how our genetics they do not predetermine but they do predispose”
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“a lot of the listeners will have heard us talk at length about how much we loved atomic habits it's been a an absolute game changer first this year”
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“I think certainly when before reading atomic habits and again like I say individually a lot of this stuff had already appeared in my consciousness through one form or another but until there is that framework it's so nebulous and kind of just cloudy and and difficult to grasp that without the step-by-step process that you're going through it's a”
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“I can't sing appraises about about atomic habit so genuinely can't we have created the [ __ ] duo which is deep work by Cal Newport and that's great”
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“one of the of the quotes from James clears atomic habit such as really [__] love and I never thought of before was where he says he's talking about people who are working hard and working effective haven't achieved their goals yet”
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“although if you're reading a book that like atomic habits it would take you a year to finish because this every age is actionable”
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“minimal is what if people have read non of this stuff they're already and for the best like common sense like receipts work atomic habits then they need to this one”
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“and I've had to construct this hilarious series of instantiation initiatives as James clear from atomic habits would implementation initiatives it's James clear would call it where”
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“so there is in atomic habits we James clear he talks about I want to say it's strategic choices or choice a crucial choices with a downstream implication”
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“so for Cal Newport who's written deep work which was out to review just written a book called digital minimalism so I think the three arguably four three books that everybody should read are atomic habits deep work and this”
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“read deep work and DN atomic habits and those if you master those two things still need to know someone needs if someone get a late Christmas present that wants to start reading some stuff for the New Year get those two books for people atomic habits by James Elliot and deep work by Cal Newport and happiness or happy”
Brad Barrett — 21 mentions
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“So, the goal, it's fascinating because you hear people like James Clear from the author of Atomic Habits talk about systems versus goals.”
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“I know James Clear talks about that significantly in Atomic Habits. It’s about making it easy. The more barriers you can cut, whether you have a home gym—no matter how simple or complex it is—it’s right there and easy.”
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“It reminds me of James Clear and sorry to keep talking about the gym but like James CLE talking about hey love that book right like it's a brilliant brilliant book”
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“it really goes back to what James Clear talked to us about, right, the author of Atomic Habits way back it was four and a half years ago, I think, in episode 157 where he just talks about these little things. Just do something little like put your gym shoes and your gym clothes out the night before.”
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“and I've been reading Atomic Habits by James clear we're gonna be talking with them later on this year that book in a book”
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“going back to this book Atomic habits with James Clear is just bomb after bomb after bomb in this thing”
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“again pulling it back to this book habits Atomic habits James Clear talking about systems and saying that while goals you know may be necessary systems are the most important thing in the world”
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“the funny thing actually is James Clear mentioned in his book Atomic habits that he first learned about this from Scott Adams”
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“I know the conjunction of atomic Habits by James clear and this book makes Time by Jake Knapp and John zarowski I mean you basically made wholesale changes in your life”
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“and systems versus goals this we've talked about from Scott Adams repeatedly from how to fail at almost everything and still win big and to see it here in atomic habits”
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“we interviewed James clear a few weeks back in episode 157 and we talked about those building blocks those atomic habits these little things that can make a difference over years and decades”
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“check out this book Atomic habits I think it really can have an impact and help you line up your intentions with your actions”
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“I'm thinking about James clear and his book Atomic habits and how”
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“I'm thinking about James Clear and his book Atomic Habits and how, okay, it might even be those first couple days just literally lacing up your shoes and walking out of the house for a couple of the nearest houses—literally walk 100 yards and come back—it sounds ridiculous when you hear it that you're like purposefully limiting it, but the”
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“and in fact building on James clear's Atomic habits book there's something really powerful to that”
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“and this actually gets us to a point that we heard James Clear talking about in atomic habits”
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“And we heard James Clear talk about this on our podcast and in his book Atomic Habits.”
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“it's similar like we had as you know James clear on the podcast talking about his book Atomic habits and and sometimes it just that very first little thing just starts this snowball like rolling downhill that's that becomes this runaway train”
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“it's similar like we had as you know James clear on the podcast talking about his book Atomic habits and and sometimes it just that very first little thing just starts this snowball like rolling downhill”
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“we talked with James clear the author of atomic habits about this and we even talked about setting up habits to make going to the gym or Being Fit easier”
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“We talked with James clear the author of atomic habits about this”
Ryan Holiday — 6 mentions
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“uh rupy cow releases milk and honey James Clear releases Atomic habits and they're they both just these books just sell 10 million copies on their own”
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“But first off, I like James; second, I think he's a great writer, and I think Atomic Habits is actually a very good book. And third, I don't know how many I'm counting now, but whatever—there's no universe in which that book selling more or less copies affects my life in any negative or positive way.”
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“second I think he's a great writer and I think Atomic habits is actually a very good book”
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“i'm talking about james clear in his book atomic habits atomic having a double meaning not just meaning explosive habits but also the the sort of the smallest possible size of a habit focusing on the little things that put in forth a chain reaction that that can in fact be explosive”
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“i recommended this book a couple times but there's a new victor frankel book um you wouldn't think there would he they found this like lost series of lectures”
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“another book recommendation 1125.1 James clears book atomic habits 1129.5 觉得自己 like what's the smallest 1132.0 uh-huh the smallest habit you can start with”
Jordan Harbinger — 5 mentions
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“This is like the James Clear Atomic Habits method, right? make it such a pain in the ass to get back into it that you have enough time and runway to stop yourself.”
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“this is one of the best-selling books on habits in a decade and we've got a great in-depth interview with him right here right now on the Jordan Harbinger show”
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“so the goal is and and I think this is from atomic habits the goal isn't to run a marathon”
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“or buy this by atomic habits and implement everything”
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“so if this stuff interests you go grab atomic habits we'll link to it in the show notes”
Jonathan Mendonsa — 5 mentions
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“I've been reading this book by James Clear Atomic habits and I am forcing myself to adopt certain habits”
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“Atomic habits talking about taking intention out and turning into action how do you do all that if you don't feel like you have any time”
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“Brad you know this content is actually building I'm sure you could reference it but we did this episode with uh James Clear author of atomic habits who's really you know talking about some of these Concepts”
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“So I've tried to internalize this whole concept of of systems versus goals which I know James Clear talks about in atomic habits and setting up systems that work for my life and for me”
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“And we heard James Clear talk about this on our podcast and in his book, Atomic Habits.”
David Perell — 4 mentions
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“For example, when James Clear when he did Atomic Habits, I think he had like 80 podcasts that launched that week. There's probably things around BookTok and Twitter and like clipping up different things that you've made about your book, that's more kind of guerrilla marketing tactics that are going to end up being more solo.”
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“the what's probably the most selling bestselling non-fiction book of the past few years atomic habits by James Clear. Atomic Habits is a brilliant, brilliant title because what he's trying to do is he's basically trying to say small, tiny changes, remarkable results.”
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“if rather than reading Atomic Habits, you know, it's the first one that comes to mind as one of these books which is everywhere you know, if rather than reading Atomic Habits, you go and read I don't know Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy.”
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“and then if you read that book the way in which he could distill his ideas and atomic habits the way in which he could craft sentences that really compress all the wisdom writing is able to do that in a way that no other media is because it's malleable”
Morgan Housel — 3 mentions
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“I remember when I read Atomic Habits by James Clear. I I I remember reading three pages and being like, That's it.”
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“James clear's book starts with him getting hit in the eye with a baseball and like nearly dying from it and then if you read that chapter and you're like I have to read the best rest of this book”
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“James Clear's book starts with him getting hit in the eye with a baseball and nearly dying from it.”
Benjamin Hardy — 3 mentions
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“every action you take kind of back to james clear's concept he calls it a vote towards the person you want to become”
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“big vision but small steps you know it's kind of like tiny habits or atomic habits”
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“James clear anatomic habits references something similar to this when he talks about habit change and he uses a analogy of identity based change that's actually what he calls it I think in atomic habits”
James Clear — 3 mentions
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“and one of the things I say in the book is that habits are the compound interest of self-improvement”
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“and the example in atomic habits is this British Cycling Team example and I'm not a huge fan of cycling per se”
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“it's this idea that it's not I say this in the conclusion of atomic habits it's not a single one percent change that's going to transform your life”
George Mack — 2 mentions
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“as James Clear says it's a vessel for self-improvement disguised as a money-making Enterprise the it's the the biggest driver of your personal growth”
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“so I think James Clear has that graph where if you improve 0.1 every single day if that compounds that's a 30 second 36x Improvement in a year”
Ali Abdaal — 2 mentions
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“Another way of approaching it would be, I guess, more like what James Clear did with Atomic Habits, where there is a thesis, i.e. Tiny habits, remarkable results. There is a four-part framework, or like the 4-Hour Workweek, four part framework of D-E-A-L.”
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“The parable of the pottery class from James [inaudible 01:09:19]'s book. All of these things. You've got to put in the reps in order to get good.”
Nathan Barry — 2 mentions
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“he wrote Atomic habits in 2021 he sold the most copies of any book on Amazon for the entire year”
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“If you take another example, James Clear wrote 'Atomic Habits' in 2021; he sold the most copies of any book on Amazon for the entire year, beating out Good Night Moon and Michelle Obama—whoever, right?”
Heidi Dusick — 2 mentions
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“The more you practice, you know, if you go back to James Clear, you don't start by running the marathon, you start by putting on your shoes.”
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“you know if you go back to James clear right you don't start by running the marathon you start by putting on your shoes”
Brooke Wells — 2 mentions
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“um let's see atomic habits i'm currently reading slight edge”
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“Let's see, "Atomic Habits." I'm currently reading "The Slight Edge." I haven't heard of that.”
Ryan Bush — 2 mentions
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“there's a lot of talk about habit change out there i mean james clear you know his all of his work and his book atomic habits very much examines the uh that side of it”
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“I mean james clear you know his all of his work and his book atomic habits uh very much examines the uh that side of it”
Oz Pearlman — 1 mention
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“For example, Atomic Habits had a huge impact on me. Some of these books that show you where is that inflection point from you trying to do something to you ingraining it in your muscle memory and now it becomes self-fulfilling.”
Bill Powell — 1 mention
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“because I'm I'm a big fan of James cla's book Atomic habits right I try to read it once a year to really refresh myself and in okay what habits am I trying to build”
Tom Segura — 1 mention
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“in atomic Habits by James Clear he talks I think it's like the head of the Chinese weightlifting team”
Nick Pollard — 1 mention
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“and um you know Atomic abic you know obviously James clear and Tim Ferris and all those guys”
Angela Duckworth — 1 mention
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“also James Clear who wrote Atomic habits which I just want to go on record as saying it's a pretty gush darn good book”
Spencer Greenberg — 1 mention
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“The next one is mini habits, and this will be familiar to people that have read um James Clear's book.”
The Cultural Tutor — 1 mention
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“if rather than reading Atomic Habits, you know, is the first one that comes to mind as one of these books which is like everywhere, you know, if rather than reading atomic habits, you go and read, I don't know, Botheus, the consolation of philosophy, just one example, um then your output is going to be different.”
Peter Akkies — 1 mention
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“Atomic habits uh James Clear advice of a just one percent better every day focus on the um what you're going to iterate on day after day after day is a great way to operate”
Richard Shotton — 1 mention
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“James clear's Atomic habits very story heavy”
Dominick Quartuccio — 1 mention
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“James Clear talks about this all the time in atomic habits the one decision you can make that eliminates thousands of future decisions”
Adam Coelho — 1 mention
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“The things that, you know, I know you guys had James Clear on the podcast. His book Atomic Habits is fantastic. And here is a couple of tips. Start small and build from there. You know, meditation or mindfulness are not one of those things that you need to go big on to get benefit. You can literally start with”
Laura Vanderkam — 1 mention
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“my favorite rule from Atomic Habits by James Clear is never miss two days in a row”
Jade Bowler — 1 mention
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“so i wrote a whole chapter about habit formation and drawing on a lot of incredible books like atomic habits”
Lauren Johnson — 1 mention
Discussed
“yet i think james clear in atomic habits he interviewed someone”
Fiona Murden — 1 mention
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“yeah i remember in atomic habits by james cleary says that we've got 14 million sense sensing um cells in our body and 11 million of them at a site dedicated to site and only three million to the remaining four senses”
Jim Mullane — 1 mention
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“I think the first book that I always recommend people as atomic habits by James clear for a lot of reasons”
Michael Blevins — 1 mention
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“in James clears atomic habits which I'm sure you'll be familiar with he talks about”
Shaan Puri — 1 mention
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“it's like did you read atomic habits I've read about a third of it so far”
Justin Wren — 1 mention
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“this is actually from James clear have you heard of him atomic habits New York Times bestselling author”
Sarah Jones — 1 mention
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“so in James clears Bach atomic habit C gives us great fact that he says in the human body there's about 14 million cells that are dedicated to sense and 11 million of them are dedicated to sight”
George MacGill — 1 mention
Discussed
“whereas a system and similar to jail under James clearer covers this a little bit with atomic habits”
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“And I remember I was talking to James Clear like a year ago and I asked him when did he come to the four parts of Atomic Habits. It was like he had finished the book.”
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“like you guys will be familiar with atomic habits and all of the Q yeah so what we're really looking at is cues”
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“He's not doing that, but I think a lot of people are kind of like, 'Oh, I bought Atomic Habits and now I'm going to get out of this basement and not be depressed anymore.'”
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“And then in terms of books, first book I read this year was Atomic Habits. That one's definitely very high up on my list.”
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“This is like some James Clear philosophy, right? If you want to watch less TV, move the TV out of the living room.”
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“and I keep thinking of the atomic habits thing where the problem is is it's not part of my system right now”
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“And this is, I mean this is how James Clear did Atomic Habits; it was a series of tweets and blog posts that became a book. Man!”
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“I am reading Atomic Habits by James clear for the third time I absolutely love this book I think it is just such an amazing book if you have things in your life that you want to accomplish”
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“This is Ashley from Oklahoma, and I wanted to start with my favorite book. I am reading Atomic Habits by James Clear for the third time, and I absolutely love this book!”
Discussed
“And what I would do is I copied James Clear's newsletter format; James Clear does something called 1-2-3. Um, guess what?”
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“If you read James Clear's 'Atomic Habits', you learn habits that are relevant to investing, relationships, exercise, and health.”
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“The cover—okay, here's the thing with these sort of books; the reason Atomic Habits was so successful is because it was picked up by the demographic of women in their 30s in the Midwest.”
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“I think these are things that are very useful tactics that people have repackaged in a way that makes sense to whoever they're speaking; in one of the best-selling books of the decade. James Clear?”
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“and I know for a fact that I am I mean it's essentially I just decimated myself from Thanksgiving to Christmas I was actually turning into a puff pastry by the time that the Christmas was completely over but getting back into it you know I'm reading this book Atomic Habits by James Clear um and it's a phenomenal book”
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“this year I have three that I'm tackling the one that I'm working on right now is atomic Habits by James clear”
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“except one of the books that I wanted to read I wanted to read it so much that I bought it was James Clear Atomic habits”
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“and right now I believe they're they're Reading Man search for meaning and atomic habits which you've heard us reference on the show and we're actually going to be interviewing James Clear in a few weeks here about that book”
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“I think it gives us a real opportunity to explore this incredible episode with James Clear, Atomic Habits.”
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“in fact referencing an episode that we did recently with James Clear author of atomic habits he very pointedly stated”
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“referencing an episode that we did recently with James Clear author of atomic habits he very pointedly stated and I've realized this not just in finance but so many aspects of my life that it is incredibly important to join a group where the desired behavior that you have for your life whether that be I want to be better”
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“It's like you said it is really a lot of things that James Clear talked about when he came on right like it's an identity thing”
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“So yeah, no, I definitely recommend it and then um James Clear's Atomic Habits was really key as far as just like getting into the habit of doing it every day and I do recommend both of those books.”
Discussed
“the reason that that rule is so great and that's an inversion of James clear's um never miss uh what is it a habit Mist once is an error a habit missed twice is the start of a new habit”
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“we did this episode with uh James Clear author of atomic habits who's really you know talking about some of these Concepts”
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“so I've tried to internalize this whole concept of of systems versus goals which I know James Clear talks about in atomic habits and setting up systems that work for my life and for me because I am still like a a very numbers based guy like I have actually set up kind of like a tracking system and frankly”
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“like in his book Atomic Habits was probably one of the best I've read on the topic and doing something consistently does change your identity.”
Discussed
“BJ Fogg has done great work, and then James Clear wrote a book about habits and has a popular newsletter regarding them.”
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“my next one is a quote from i think it's originally from uh james clear don't practice what you do not want to become and basically it reminds us that there is no such thing as not instantiating a habit you're always embedding some form of habit”
Discussed
“it's because johnny was was following like the atomic habits method of like starting at two minutes building up to four minutes a day and three minutes”
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“the fact that james clear didn't just do atomic habits unteachable is you know beyond me”
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“atomic habits probably [frick] good man we were talking about this on the we were interviewed the other day about like what books would we recommend and talking about reading and um the answers i gave were like books that are operating systems so like atomic habits if you like you can you apply what's in atomic habits if all”
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“atomic habits probably [ __ ] good man we were talking about this on the we were interviewed the other day about like what books would we recommend and talking about reading and um the answers i gave were like books that are operating systems so like atomic habits if you like you can you apply what's in atomic habits”
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“so i re-read atomic habits we all like atomic habits don't we just not read it yet”
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“so i re-read atomic habits”
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“so there's this quote from atomic habits that James clears got I always come back to changing your habits often requires you to change your tribe Each tribe has a set of shared expectations Behaviors that conform to the shared expectations are attractive Behaviors that conflict with the shared expectations are unattractive It's hard to go against the group Often”
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“the best books tell you a story that you already know is a universal atomic habits by james clear one of the best books that i've read over the last few years”
Discussed
“so James clear and then re reviewing my notes on atomic habits life”
Discussed
“one of the one of the quotes from James clears atomic habit Such a really [ __ ] love and I never thought of before”
Recommended
“recently read James clears atomic habits which kind of put a like a bottle cap on that thought process”

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Passing
“You know, like the atomic habits you have to do like small. This was one that wasn't that hard.”
Passing
“It's not a single thrust. It's not the psychology of money. It's not atomic habits. It's not high agency.”
Passing
“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.”
Passing
“Your book is everywhere and now I get to actually meet the person behind it.”
Own book
“Looking back on, you know, now Atomic Habits has sold 25 million copies, I'd say that's maybe the biggest lesson that I have is that the people who make it easy to get started and who master the art of getting started tend to stick with it and succeed.”
Own book
“Um in a way all of Atomic Habits is an answer to that question.”
Own book
“I wrote parts of Atomic Habits on my parents' couch when I was visiting them for the holidays. I wrote parts of it in the passenger seat of a car while we were on a road trip.”
Own book
“That was how I built my audience and got the book deal that eventually became Atomic Habits.”
Own book
“I mentioned him in Atomic Habits and he when he first started working out, he had this strange little rule for himself where he wasn't allowed to stay at the gym for longer than 5 minutes.”
Own book
“In my language and the Atomic Habits language, it's what I call identity-based habits.”
Own book
“There really, there is no one version of Atomic Habits. There are 25 million versions. And it's what those 25 million people who have read have thought.”
Own book
“And I don't feel that way about Atomic Habits. I'm like, it can just be a project that I worked really hard on...”
Own book
“I got into this thing for a little while when I was actually working on writing Atomic Habits. I tried to lock everything down...”
Own book
“If there was any one thing that I could add to Atomic Habits that wasn't in there, it would be more on the social environment.”
Own book
“In some ways, I feel like everything that I teach through Atomic Habits and the writing that I do is just me teaching what my parents taught me...”
Own book
“Atomic Habits is like runaway freight train. I'm trying to keep a hold of that.”
Own book
“So, you know, if you're looking for more on all this, how what else can I do to make habits easier, obvious, and so on, Atomic Habits is, you know, the the full guide there.”
Passing
“nature's very keen on was atomic habits for the 1800s. ”
Passing
“rupy cow releases milk and honey James Clear releases Atomic habits and they're they both just these books just sell 10 million copies on their own”
Own book
“and then I signed the book deal for Atomic habits and I didn't have the capacity to do that and write the book”
Passing
“so the two times we've recently done this is with James Clear from Atomic habits and Dr Andrew huberman”
Passing
“and so I I can imagine following up something like Atomic Habits it's like impossible and so you can't you can't try to”
Ad read
“One that I'm really enjoying is written by James Clear, called Atomic Habits! It's just basically, you know, it's not just another self-help book, it's something that like you can actually put these things into motion!”
Passing
“he came out with it just after James Clear’s ‘Atomic Habits’”
Passing
“it was like number one was Atomic habits and I I looked it there and it said like 500 in like 70 weeks”
Passing
“because when you got back the first thing you did was give me back my Atomic habits book yeah it only took shaming Laura in front of uh maybe a couple hundred thousand people she's like here's the book give it back to Jonathan and it's back the very first morning”
Passing
“because when you got back the first thing you did was give me back my Atomic habits book”
Passing
“right now I believe they're they're Reading Man search for meaning and atomic habits which you've heard us reference on the show and we're actually going to be interviewing James Clear in a few weeks here about that book”
Passing
“we are getting the opportunity to speak with James Clear author of atomic habits I mean this is if he is not a household name he is one that you will be bonding with quickly because the information that he's put together the synthesis in this book”
Passing
“and you know Habits Like You Know Atomic habits”
Passing
“the editor on our book is the same editor that James Clear has for a book called Atomic habits”
Passing
“The editor on our book is the same editor that James Clear has for a book called Atomic Habits.”
Passing
“or the pomodoro technique or atomic habits or whatever it might be”
Passing
“Okay i have a problem with my this thing like which page in atomic habits is it that i need to turn to to like find the particular habit that i'm doing to do the whatever thing”
Passing
“I can see seth golden and and james clear's atomic habits just behind you on the desk”
Passing
“the uh the one about the S cells is from James clear's Atomic habits I can't remember who told me that one everyone will know it was on this podcast”
Passing
“today we have James queer author of atomic habits this is one of the best-selling books on habits in a decade”
Passing
“your book atomic habits which will link to in the show notes as we always do addresses both avenues to habit change”
Passing
“and you talk about in atomic habits you talk about goals first mentality versus systems first mentality”
Passing
“James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, has been on earlier this year.”
Own book
“it was sure it was something that I'd seen in chasing excellence by Ben Bergeron and a couple of other books and hadn't really put it together but it was incredibly succinctly and brutally delivered delivered to remind me just how many mistakes are sometimes make in atomic habits”
Own book
“so when I was about a year into writing atomic habits that like okay this is going to slow I'm spending too much time on social I need to make sure that I like say more focus tearing to get this book done”