Red Sage Podcast | James Clear, Small Habits Matter | EP010

Key insights

🧬 Habits are the best lever for talent and genes, allowing us to influence and shape our lives.

💪 "Even if you are talented, you can't succeed without having great habits to execute and fully realize your potential."

📚 Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning and reading habits, highlighting the significance of consistent habits in acquiring knowledge and personal growth.

🗳️ Mastering the right habits allows you to cast votes for your desired identity.

🏃 The real goal is not to achieve a specific outcome, like running a marathon, but to develop the identity of a runner.

🧠 "True behavior change is really identity change because once you've changed that internal story, it's way easier to show up each day."

⏰ Misalignment of rewards can make bad habits stick easily, as the immediate reward outweighs the unfavorable ultimate reward.

💪 The challenge of building good habits is pulling the long-term costs of bad habits into the present moment and the long-term rewards of good habits into the present moment.

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