James Clear on What You Want

Monday 1 February 2021
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In this episode Chase (https://chasereeves.co) and NYT bestselling author James Clear (https://jamesclear.com) pull apart the question "what do you want!?" and discuss life after success (and how James got there).

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CONTENTS:

  • 2:14 Why he lives where he lives
  • 6:48 his book has been on the NYT bestseller list for over a year!?
  • 7:46 what it has been like to become successful.
  • 7:59 how he first got started
  • 9:19 early work built up potential energy that released when the book was launched
  • 10:03 James' worry for content creators
  • 15:10 the challenge of relevancy
  • 16:31 often times people practice something different than what they preach
  • 18:58 more practitioners writing (or more people practicing, not just writing)
  • 21:02 "volume/consistency before intensity"
  • 23:26 the actual work isn't hard, PATIENCE is hard.
  • 27:10 "i'm starting to think the most important thing is to know what you want."
  • 29:00 where we waste our energy: chasing status symbols, continuing status quo
  • 31:27 Let your life speak (https://amzn.to/3cuiRQG) by Parker Palmer
  • 32:15 what makes a good answer to the question: what do I want?
  • 36:04 the enneagram (https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions/)
  • 44:55 set directions instead of goals.
  • 50:23 James' minimal travel setup (https://jamesclear.com/ultralight-travel)
  • 51:07 big if true: every thought you have is downstream of what you consume
  • 56:45 "life begins after 40. Before that it's just research."
  • 58:21 life is short, but it's also really long and you have to live with your choices.

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