2024-04-08
34 分钟We all have habits - the good and not-so good kind. But can we use them to our advantage? In this week’s episode, Chris is joined by James Clear, entrepreneur and author of #1 New York Times bestseller, “Atomic Habits”, for a conversation about the power of habitual behavior. They discuss the science of habit formation, how to understand the forces that motivate you, and why the sum of many little habits can add up to a better life. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
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You'Re listening to how to be a better human.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
You know, we tend to think a lot about habits.
At the beginning of the year, I'm going to read a book a week, or I'm going to work out every day, or I'm going to finally get into woodworking or whatever, you know, what lies you told yourself back in January.
But then if you're anything like me, this time of the year rolls around and hmm, I'm looking around and I'm not seeing a big pile of books that I've read, and I'm also not seeing literally any handmade furniture.
So why is that?
Well, today's guest wrote the book about it.
If you were trying to figure out how to change your habits, how to shift your behavior, or simply to understand what is going on in your brain when it comes to motivation, James Clear is the guy you want to talk to.
And today we're going to be talking to him all about his book, Atomic Habits, what he's learned in years of hearing from readers about it, and how to change what we do.
Here's a clip.
We could probably say that I have a pretty good writing habit.
Certainly I've gotten good results from my writing habit.
But for the first three years that I had the business, I wrote a new article every Monday and Thursday.
So I did that for three years.
Those were like longer form pieces that were like two or 3000 words.
Then I signed the book deal.
So for the next three years, my writing habit was totally different.
I was like fully focused on writing the book.
And then for the last four years, I've been running this newsletter.