Mentioned 12 times on 4 shows. Most recently heard 02/11/2026.
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“And James Clear is amazing at what he writes for all the tips and tricks. But one of the key ones on the emotional level, because the decisions are being made emotionally, is can I slow down, unpack and feel the stuff that I don't want to feel that drives me into some bad habits.”
“You speak to Olympic athletes, they do the exact same thing. That's what I was thinking of. I was thinking of seeing who was Sir David Brownsford, who's the guy quoted in the first chapter of Atomic Habits, turning the British cycling team around, marginal gains. Beautiful. He's a good friend of mine on and off camera. And everyone knows about the marginal gains idea, focus on the smallest things.”
“So when a habit, right, this is also James Clear's Atomic Habits, phenomenal book, obviously, on habit formation, touches on these kinds of concepts. You want, ideally, you have a behavior or a habit happen without thinking, right?”
“I suppose this is probably one of the advantages of a book like, let's say, Atomic Habits or Tiny Habits, BJ Fogg. Okay, there is a, I'm aware there's varieties of interventions and you sort of, there's this lattice work that you're building your understanding of how habits happen.”
“He is trying to sell the feeling of awe. He finds a million different ways to give you that feeling. James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, sells the feeling of self-control, a feeling that you can take control of your life. And all of his advice, no matter what the blog is about, will give you that underlying feeling of control.”
“completely from start generated by you? Like, if you read James Clear's atomic habits and you take his habit process to improve your life, does that mean that all of the thoughts and frames that were developed off the back of his habit structure aren't yours?”
“my whole list filtered for me already. What are some, okay? I think that's in atomic habits with that system I just described. I think that's the featured case study. How long is that Slack and who is in it? And are the other people in it like, dude, shut up?”
“clear's atomic habits on Moby Dick is worth 10 million times that of an anime and manga blog. However, by sheer numbers, the amount of bad writing out numbers, the amount of good writing.”
“stack, habit stack. Atomic habits. I love to stack. I gua sha while I'm doing it and do some lymphatic drainage. So I think those are my two daily favorite things. Red light and lymphatic stuff. So gua sha is like where you take like a crystal of some sort or it could be stainless steel or a rock.”
“for three years. So the first three years, 150 articles, you know, write twice a week. That was a great habit. There were like 2000 word pieces or so. But then I signed the book deal for Atomic Habits. I didn't have the capacity to do that and also write the book. So that had to change. I wrote the book for like three years, and then the book came out. And now I write a newsletter once a week.”
“in life are roughly 10 year buckets, right? So like for me building my first business, that was kind of like a 10 year thing, and eventually led to the launch of Atomic Habits, you maybe get five or six of those in your adult life. Some of those things make sense to do in a different order than”
“You got them to identify as, I'm a voter, rather than, are you voting today? And so same thing. There's an example in Atomic Habits I talk about. Imagine two people who are trying to quit smoking. And so the first person gets offered a cigarette, and they say, oh, no, thanks. I'm trying not to smoke. And the second person gets offered, and they say, oh, no, thanks. I'm not a smoker.”