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James Clear on What You Want

Author
Chase Reeves
Published
Mon 01 Feb 2021
Episode Link
https://share.transistor.fm/s/9c4f5d0b

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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