How to practically change your behaviors | Peter Attia & James Clear

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This clip is from episode # 183 - Building & Changing Habits with James Clear of ""Atomic Habits""
In this episode, Peter is joined by James Clear, author of the New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits.
In this clip, we discuss:
- Riding a bike vs swimming as adaptive behaviors
- Determining what a bad habit is
- The importance of feedback with habit setting
- And more
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[@thisopinionwillexpire2662]

For the “why don’t you just put 5 cookies on the baking sheet?” question, I think there’s maybe a metaphor in premeditated crime vs crimes of passion. Like, planning ahead to eat the 5 cookies, even before baking them feels like such an obviously bad decision you just can’t rationalize to yourself. It’d be like pouring an 8-oz glass of whiskey vs. coming back to pour little glasses throughout the night. Or putting 5 slices of pizza on a plate vs going back for more. We feel too ashamed and silly committing right out of the gate to an act that’s clearly bad for us. And creating conditions where you have to “re-commit” the crime makes you feel like you’re having to make multiple bad, impulsive decisions. So, bake even just 1 cookie at a time, and it’d almost become a comedy routine to go back and keep baking cookies 1 at a time all night long, to get your fix.

[@raraavis7782]

I never thought about it that way....but that is so me 😮

[@ambition112]

0:42: 🍽 Eating is an essential part of life, and there are three ways to break a bad eating habit. 3:50: 🚬 Breaking the habit of smoking involves identifying specific instances and intervening at each cue, craving, and reward. 6:41: 🔑 The video discusses the challenge of going back to the same environment that prompted a certain behavior. 10:03: 💡 Making small changes to our environment can greatly influence our behavior and choices. 13:10: 🍪 The speaker shares a hack for enjoying fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies without overindulging. Recap by Tammy AI

[@karicallaway5065]

This is sooo good!! Most of the info is just pointing out the obvious, but somehow regardless of how obvious things are, we turn our heads away and end up with bad habits. Awareness is a difficult pill to swallow sometimes, but it's the first and crucial step towards changing our behavior. When we look inside we don't always like what we see so we protect ourselves by not looking, of course then we're so disappointed with how we feel, tired, irritated, frustrated, depressed, anxious, sick, etc. Once you feel how good healthy feels, you'll find the motivation to stay on the right path.

[@HoobaBros]

Thank you, god bless.

[@ablazin1826]

Honest word!

[@HoobaBros]

Great video. Btw, Peter, I'm a new subscriber. I recently started watching more podcast episodes with you in them and I always find you very informative and helpful. Thank you very much.

[@TrishCanyon8]

My horse trainer said "make the wrong thing difficult and make the right thing easy". He trained me to train my horse. 😂

[@lesliehuntersierra]

LOVE YOUR APPROACH ❤

[@Dylaniated]

LOVE the kids aspect of this ...soooo true

[@embarq12]

Fear is the most powerful motivator. Unless people encounter something bad in terms of their health , most of them don’t change their habits

[@Princesslaya90]

That’s so true !!! I lost 40lbs because I got a rude awakening from my doc that I was on the cusp of high blood pressure (I’m only 33)

[@patrickmcgowan1252]

You need to take baby steps. Dr. Leo Marvins seminal book "Baby Steps" pre-dated "Atomic Habits" by decades.

[@stevencole7331]

The only way to eliminate a problematic habit is to stop doing it . Trying to replace with something else or moderate the amount you do it will ussually lead you back to where you were . There also other habits that reinforce the peimary habit which means they have to be eliminated like a beer my go along with a cigarette. A cigarette may go along with a cup of coffee . That cup of coffee triggers the desire for a smoke .

[@hermes537]

Smoking addiction for me was not so much about nicotine but to BEING A SMOKER. I gave up nicotine often but went back to being a smoker more often. Then one day I gave up being the guy who smoked. Since then decades ago i haven't missed it once😂

[@OreMan]

Nice T-shirt, Peter! 🏎️

[@Bolden47]

This dude just said the most simple thing for each problem.. pretty much “yeah just replace your bad habit with something else” duh!!!

[@firstjupiter]

What’s going on with Peter’s pants??

[@artimuscoffee8921]

What limits you from eating the dough balls?? 😂

[@fredswolen894]

Completely unrelated but I’ve been watching a lot of Attia recently, I’ve appreciated his content, but f*ck me, how laughable is it that a guy who’s all about longevity hasn’t addressed blue zones ONCE. Or the Adventist study. Once. And it’s a meat eating dude that says that. Dude you can’t be into longevity and avoid the elephant in the room.