James Clear on Getting 1% Better Daily | The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday and James Clear discuss practical ways to shift your internal narrative, how to begin and maintain habits, being flexible with your goals, and much more
In today's Podcast Summary, we highlight the most recent Daily Stoic podcast, hosted by Ryan Holiday featuring James Clear.
Full Podcast Summary: James Clear on Getting 1% Better Daily | The Daily Stoic
Podcast Summary:
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday talks with author James Clear about practical ways to shift your internal narrative, how to begin and maintain productive habitual action, being flexible with your goals as you set and achieve them, and more.
Key Takeaways:
· When you perform a habit, you are casting a vote for the type of person you want to become
· Focusing on a single outcome will help you win once. Focusing on systems will help you win repeatedly
· The height of joy is tied to depth of sorrow
· Design your perfect life and reverse engineer your daily habits from there
· Saying no is a credit for a block of time in the future. Saying yes is a debit to spend time or resources in a certain way in the future
· Seneca: We are intensely protective of money and property. However, we are not protective over our time. Optimize how
you spend your time time above all else
· The way of life is to be supple and flexible. The way of death is to be brittle and hard. The flexible prevail.
· Habits don't restrict freedom, they create it. By optimizing habits, we create additional capacity and space to have autonomy and freedom