Michael Peter what do you know about a book called Atomic Habits?

So little that I've managed to hold on to my worst habit waiting until the last minute to come up with a zinger for my podcast

All right, Atomic Habits by James Clear. Now I imagine you do not know who James Clear is.

I know literally nothing about this book. All I know is that it's like one of our most requested books.

Yeah, I've never seen it in the wild.

James Clear is a guy who starts doing self-help blogging in like 2012.

He doesn't have any formal education or training on the topic.

I think he's just like got an economics degree and maybe an MBA or something.

Just a guy saying stuff, just a guy on internet saying stuff. We love those.

He's prolific. He posts a few times a week very consistently gains a big following.

And he leverages that sort of niche popularity into this book, which has sold somewhere north of 15 million copies.

How does this happen? It's so baffling to me.

I don't know and it only came out a few years ago.

It doesn't even have like a great title. I feel like world is flat or like rich dad poor dad.

You sort of get with their about but Atomic Habits. I don't even know if it's about like me ending my bad habits or me like getting new good habits.

It's about both ostensibly the full title of the book is Atomic Habits.

An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones.

When he says Atomic Habits, he means atomic in the more literal sense, meaning like tiny habits.

Oh, yeah. Going going into it. I sort of assumed it was more like habits that are going to

nuke your stupid fucking life.

Yeah, like atomic bomb habits.

Right. Not like atomic nuclei habits. He says quote habits are like the atoms of our lives.

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