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Clear: Atomic Habits launch planning began 15 months in advance
“We started planning that launch 15 months ahead of time.”
James Clear Jan 1, 2026 ▶ 22:46 How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
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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…”
James Clear Jan 1, 2026 ▶ 1:37:55 How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
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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 Jan 1, 2026 ▶ 1:48:01 How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
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