Building & Changing Habits | James Clear (#183 rebroadcast)

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Drive podcast. I'm your host, Peter Attia. This podcast, my website, and my weekly newsletter all focus on the goal of translating the science of longevity into something accessible for everyone. Our goal is to provide the best content in health and wellness, and we've established a great team of analysts to make this happen. It is extremely important to me to provide all of this content without relying on paid ads. To do this, our work is made entirely possible by our members. And in return, we offer exclusive member only content and benefits above and beyond what is available for free. If you want to take your knowledge of this space to the next level, it's our goal to ensure members get back much more than the price of the subscription. If you want to learn more about the benefits of our premium membership, head over to peteratiamd.com forward slash subscribe. Welcome to a special New Year's episode of The Drive. For this week's episode, as we're nearing a new year and a lot of you are probably going to be thinking about your New Year's resolutions, we wanted to rerelease one of our most popular episodes, my discussion with James Clear from November 2021. James is an entrepreneur, photographer, and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits, an easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones. I wanted to interview James after reading his book for the second time, and I realized that it was such an important part of what we try to do in our practice and, of course, what most of us try to do in our own lives, which is change behaviors. And behaviors can easily be distilled into habits. In this conversation, James and I really focus on the four components of what go into forming behavioral habits. We break those apart, and we focus on how you can learn new habits or unlearn bad habits. I think you'll enjoy this episode if you've ever wanted to change a behavior or create a behavior, which basically I think is all of us. So without further delay, please enjoy or reenjoy my conversation with James Clear, and we hope you all have a wonderful New Year. Hey, James. Thanks so much for making time to sit down today. Been a while. I've wanted to sit down and chat with you. Yeah. Of course. Thank you so much for thinking of me. I'm excited to talk more. I'm trying to think when I first read your book because I read it twice. And like all good books, you get more out of it, I think, the second time in part because I think the deeper you get down the rabbit hole of trying to create habits, whether it's in yourself or helping others form habits, the more you realize how challenging it can be. But maybe for folks who haven't read it, …