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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 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 he 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 three thousand words.

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