James Clear

"Copy and paste it into like an Evernote file or you know, Google Doc or wherever I'm storing that stuff at."

"I will go back through and take photos of each of those and highlight the photo on my iPhone and just copy and paste it into like an Evernote file or you know, Google Doc."

"His approach I think is great, which is mostly just like dump it in Vanguard and let it ride. Investing in Vanguard is incredibly diversified because you got a slice of every company."

"what I did was I moved Audible to the home screen of my phone and I just said, well, I'll just listen to an audio book when I'm usually doing that"

"I went to the three star reviews on Amazon one star review everybody hates it often for some stupid reason like the book showed up and it was dirty on the dust jacket"

"I found Reddit really helpful when I was working on certain sections of the book. So, I would search things like, what's the best habit you've ever built, Reddit"

"some of the things that I've used in like my most recent builds are like uh Neon, which is kind of the the database uh plugs in nicely and plays well with Vercel"

"anti-gravity is really cool. Like definitely recommend people check it out"

"you could integrate Stripe for the payments and the subscriptions relatively easily as well"

"I would probably deploy onto Vercel or Railway or, you know, something along those lines"

"So, meanwhile, I'm going to go over to, uh, AI Studio and I'm going to give the exact same, uh, prompt."

"Hey, use the Perplexity MCP. Tell me who is in this space. What's a unique kind of differentiating angle that we can take?"

"I would probably use cursor agent with, you know, GPT or Gemini or something like that for kind of an outside perspective."

"I would probably deploy onto Vercel or Railway or, you know, something along those lines"

"Clerk for OAuth and login uh easy to spin up OAuth or anything like that"

"they have a little habit tracker where they just put an X down for each day they do their workout and then at the end of the month they count up how many workouts they did"

"I'm a huge advocate of J.L. Collins and The Simple Path to Wealth that book. His approach I think is great, which is mostly just like dump it in Vanguard and let it ride."

"they should update and use new tools or bring YouTube in or whatever and they don't and now all of a sudden they're starting to lose the students"

"I looked at some of the books that had come out before me power of habits seven habits of highly effective people you know books like this that had already been written on habits"

"I looked at some of the books that had come out before me power of habits seven habits of highly effective people you know books like this that had already been written on habits"

"Rich Dad, Poor Dad, or the life-changing magic of tidying up. I thought tidying up was a small thing. Now you're telling me it's life-changing."

"The life-changing magic of tidying up. I thought tidying up was a small thing. Now you're telling me it's life-changing."

"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. I thought astrophysics was something that was going to take seven years in a PhD. No, actually just read this book in an hour and a half."

"For Atomic Habits on launch day, I had an interview on CBS This Morning and it was a big moment for me because it changed the launch of the book from hey some guy is releasing a book to this is a thing."

"How to Win Friends and Influence People even now describing it as winning friends sounds kind of odd, but it's odd enough that there's no mistaking what you're talking about."

"We have a book coming out called The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions and that is basically a book about choices. It's a book about choosing and making decisions."

"Notion wasn't even around when I was getting started."

"Man's Search for Meaning basically you only hear that in the book title. Nobody uses that phrase in daily life."

"Well, uh it's a good question. I mean, at the end of the day, they're both VS Code forks"

"I think if I was going to encapsulate entrepreneurship in a nutshell, I would say it is the trust and the willingness that you can figure it out."

"we have an Atomic Habits daily calendar. It's a page a day. There's something very human about needing to be reminded. So, it's nice to have a just a simple daily reminder."

"I also have an Atomic Habits workbook that we're coming out with. So, it just helps you operationalize some of the things. How do I apply it to my actual life?"

"For the first three years that I wrote, I wrote jamesclear.com and I published a new article every Monday and Thursday and they were like 2,000word pieces, took me like about 20 hours each on average."

"I wrote parts of Atomic Habits on my parents couch when I was visiting them for the holidays. I wrote parts of it in the passenger seat of a car while we were on a road trip."

"I do think you have to make it really small. If you're giving people a plan that has five things on there for them to do, can we eliminate four of those for now?"

"Two-minute rule is very simple. It just says take whatever habit you're trying to focus on and scale it down to something that takes 2 minutes or less to do"

"Author's Equity is this book publisher that I helped co-found. We have a book coming out called The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions."

"At the top of 3-2-1, my newsletter, it says the most wisdom per word of any newsletter on the web. I'm trying to set an expectation there."

"Atomic Habits has a chapter later in it where I talk about deliberate practice. It could have been a book about deliberate practice where I talk about habits, but instead it's a book about habits where I talk about deliberate practice."

"I call these the four laws of behavior change. Make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying"

"So I do a lot of like website optimization for thevibemarketer.com"