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Clear: The one concept I regret omitting from Atomic Habits is fun
“If I could actually add one thing to atomic habits that wasn't in it would probably be this, which is to ask, what would this look like if it was fun?”
Clear: Deleted all social media apps from phone for the past year
“I have, so I've done this for the last year. I just deleted all social media apps off my phone. And I, what I told myself was if you really want to use them, you can just download them and log in.”
Clear relies on his assistant's phone for social media 2FA codes
“I also have tried to install some additional barriers, which is I can't log in to any of my social accounts on my own. I have to text my assistant to send me the login cause it's tied to a separate phone. It's, I can't even get past the two factor cause it doe…”
Clear: Atomic Habits Bestseller Status Was Five Years of Accumulated Leverage
“Really what you're seeing when the book comes out is the release of potential energy that was built over like five years prior. You know, it's not like it happened overnight. It was The five years of building an audience of hundreds of thousands of people, mee…”
Clear: Assuming you are wrong shifts your posture to learning, not defending
“And if you start with the position that I am already wrong, I don't know everything. I'm getting something that I believe right now is off, but I'm trying to become less wrong. Then you're more in a position where you're trying to learn and less in a position …”
Clear: Clinging Tightly to an Identity Makes Growth Harder
“The tighter you cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.”
Clear spent 15 to 20 hours writing twice-weekly articles for three years
“And so for the first three years, I wrote a new article every Monday and Thursday, and I would spend on average, I would spend between like 15 and 20 hours on each article. The short, the fastest I ever did one was eight hours. The longest was like 40 somethin…”
Clear: The first draft of Atomic Habits was roughly 712 pages long
“The first draft of atomic habits was like 700 and 12 pages or something like that. The final one was, you know, 230 or whatever.”
James Clear: Success means time autonomy and contributing to humanity's knowledge
“I think the short version is success is having power over my days. That's, you know, if I have the freedom and the ability to choose how I'm spending my days, that sounds great. What more could you want than that? You know, that means I would get to choose to …”