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Clear restricts his Instagram to plain text as a creative forcing function
“I do this with my Instagram account. It's like a very weird Instagram account. You know, there's no photos of me. It's just text. But it's kind of like a peacock's tail, you know, in the sense that it's a very useful hindrance. Like it's very visual visual and…”
Clear: Increasing Annual Margin of Safety Matters More Than Net Worth
“And I just, I don't really even care about our net worth that much. What I care about is, am I in a stronger position this year? You know, like as long as each year it's getting a little bit stronger, the margin of safety gets a little bit larger. The ability …”
Clear: Social media's short half-life disqualifies it as a core business focus
“Social media, you Has a very short half-life and that's fine. It can serve a role in the business, but I'm never going to make it my central thing because something like a blog post has a little bit longer half-life, but a book really has a long half-life.”
Clear: Unbroken momentum of Atomic Habits delayed my next book
“This is part of the reason why I have not published another book yet. Atomic habits is working really well. And so I'm trying to take my own advice and don't stop until it stops working.”
Clear keeps his phone in another room until noon to avoid distractions
“Another little rule that I follow is I'd take my phone and I try to leave it in another room until lunch each day. So that just gives me from like nine to noon ish where I can work on my own agenda and not respond to everybody else's agenda.”
Clear: Let the world say no first instead of being your own bottleneck
“I try to not be my own bottleneck. You know, I don't want to have, I don't want to be the first person to tell myself, no, I want the world to tell me no first, and then I'll adjust based on the feedback that I get, but I don't want to talk myself out of it.”
Clear: I currently have two book manuscripts of 500 and 600 pages
“I have two manuscripts right now. One is 500 pages. One is 600 pages. That is just that is just a bunch of stuff that I've read that is organized around the book concept.”
Clear: Co-founded publishing venture Authors Equity to cross-pollinate his brand
“Like I have my business as a writer, you know, I'm an author and I have my platforms, but I also co-founded a publishing company authors equity. And so now the brand that I have as an author helps me meet other authors and talk to them. And if it's a good fit,…”
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…”