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James Clear

author · in 11 sources (2018–2020)

Speaks in 5 sources; this page lists what is said about them.

Sources by year: 2018: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2020: 5

Threads

Also named in the threads: Book Club, Ali's series of book-summary videos (2020)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Atomic Habits (15) · friction (4) · Derren Brown (2) · Book Club (2) · stoicism (2) · Tim Ferriss (2) · Kindle (3) · Instagram (2) · Notion (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-05-10 · Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results - Atomic Habits by James Clear — announcement: Ali: This video is the second episode of Book Club, Ali's new series summarising the key ideas of his favourite books, on Atomic Habits by James Clear. — 00:00:29
    • James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits James Clear argues that getting 1% better each day for a year makes you 37 times better, while getting 1% worse each day takes you nearly to zero. — 00:01:27
    • James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits James Clear calls habits the compound interest of self-improvement: they make little difference on a given day, but an enormous one over months or years. — 00:01:27
    • James Clear (quoted): James Clear says time magnifies the margin between success and failure: good habits make time your ally, bad habits make it your enemy. — 00:01:56
    • James Clear (quoted): James Clear's plateau of latent potential: habits seem to make no difference until a critical threshold, because compounding delays outcomes, so a valley of disappointment comes first. — 00:02:26
    • James Clear (quoted): James Clear argues for systems over goals; his first problem with goals is that winners and losers share them, so goals cannot be what differentiates people. — 00:02:55
    • James Clear (quoted): James Clear says identity change is the North Star of habit change, with three layers: outcomes, processes and systems, and identity. — 00:04:52
    • James Clear (quoted): James Clear derives his four laws of behaviour change from the four stages of a habit: cue, craving, response and reward. — 00:06:49
  • 2020-05-26 · Studying, Cooking and Netflix · Day in the Life During Lockdown — Ali edits the script of a Book Club episode on James Clear's Atomic Habits, adding personal examples and casual touches so it seems less scripted. — 00:02:50
  • 2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits James Clear says that environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behaviour. — 00:00:00
    • Ali says that once we take in that friction is the most powerful force in the universe we can use it to build good habits and break bad ones, which is what James Clear's Atomic Habits is about. — 00:04:23
  • 2020-12-31 · I WAS WRONG - How I Set Goals — James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits, James Clear says that if you want better results, you should forget about setting goals and focus on your system instead. — 00:00:58
  • …and 11 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

Also named in: Is Success Luck or Hard Work?

2019

  • 2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — recommendation: Ali calls Atomic Habits by James Clear a really good book: it is his second most highlighted book, after Happy by Derren Brown. — 00:10:17
  • 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — announcement: Ali will talk about James Clear's Atomic Habits in another Monthly Favourites video. — 00:02:15
  • 2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — James Clear (quoted): In Atomic Habits James Clear says that to build good habits you should make them obvious: to floss, keep the floss on the bathroom counter rather than in the cabinet. — 00:09:34

Also named in: How I use Notion as a Resonance Calendar

2018

  • 2018-11-01 · My Favourite iPhone XS Apps — recommendation: Ali is reading Atomic Habits by James Clear, which he calls very good and tells viewers to check out. — 00:02:57
  • 2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — recommendation: Ali recommends James Clear's Atomic Habits for its four-part framework for building good habits, much of which he thinks applies to fighting procrastination. — 00:20:00
    • James Clear (quoted): James Clear's Atomic Habits says that habits are the compound interest of life. — 00:32:34