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James Clear on Mastering Habits, Morning Routines, & His Favorite Lifts

Category: Health
Duration: 00:59:02
Publish Date: 2015-02-09 05:00:00
Description:

In this episode I interview author, entrepreneur, weightlifter, and travel photographer James Clear.  James has written an amazing eBook on how to transfer your habits.  He is a firm believer that if you can master your habits, you can master your life.  

A Duke University study showed that 45% of what we do each day is habitual.  James came on the show to chat about how he coaches people to transform their habits as well as how he maintains a high level of fitness even with a busy schedule.  

He is also an accomplished athlete who in 2008 was named an Academic All American for baseball by ESPN and in 2012 he was a finalist for the Travel Photographer of the Year award.

In this episode we discuss:

- how sports helped him establish routines

- his hardest habit to master

- his process for building habits

- habits are not a finish line, they are a lifestyle/pattern to commit to

implementation intention

- his history with power lifting and current regiment

- favorite lift

- how he structures workouts when he is on the road

-his favorite place to shoot photos and the one he wants to visit the most

- his guilty pleasure work out track

- one famous person from history he would have dinner with (Mark Twain and Richard Feynman)

- the difference between routines and habits

- creating ceremony/rituals for new habits

- morning routines

-how he coaches people to build habits

- the super hero he would be

- if his life were an action movie who would play James Clear

- who inspires him

 

 

Links

Fitocracy

Side Quest Fitness

The Willpower Instinct

Humans of New York

Into Thin Air

James's eBook on Habits

 

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