James Clear describes how you can improve your life, using small incremental steps that add up to big wins.

Questions we discuss in this episode:

• How does "what you repeatedly do" affect your identity?
• How does someone’s context affect their ability to set and maintain good habits? Are good habits only for people of privilege? 
• How can you maintain habits for people with depression, anxiety or attention deficit?
• How to form habits when your schedule is not in your control? (if you have kids, etc...)
• If you do fall out of a habit, what should you do? Revive it, or let it go?
• What systems and tools can you use to help automate, facilitate or help ingrain healthy habits?

Show notes

• Get the book: Atomic Habits
• Get the habits journal
• Steven Pressfield: "Stevie Wonder’s territory is the piano. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s is the gym. When Bill Gates pulls into the parking lot at Microsoft, he’s on his territory"
• Seth Godin: "Who is it for, and what is it for?"
• Seth Godin: “People like us do things like this.”
• James Clear's AMA on Reddit
• Read James' blog: JamesClear.com
• James Clear: "Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."
• Nir Eyal shuts off his internet every night
• James Clear: "When you're struggling with a new habit, your effort's not wasted, it's just being stored."

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