Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2019-04-15
Chris Williamson & James Clear: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #064
How To Build Habits That Last - James Clear - #064
James Clear is an author, entrepreneur and speaker focused on habits, decision-making and continuous improvement. James' new book Atomic Habits has been my most recommended of 2019 (and probably 2020 too).
Chris Williamson recommended Atomic Habits by James Clear and Deep Work by Cal Newport, and discussed Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergeron.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Atomic Habits
Recommended“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”
Where to get it
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Chasing Excellence
Discussed“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”
Where to get it
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Deep Work
Recommended“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”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Atomic Habits
“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”
Plugged Atomic Habits
“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”