“He's the author of the number one New York Times mega best seller. I'm adding the mega Atomic Habits, which covers easy and proven ways to build good habits and break bad ones.”
Books mentioned in James Clear, Atomic Habits — Strategies for Mastering Habits
From The Tim Ferriss Show · 2023-01-04
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“So, you can get a very good taste of it. It's like if you don't like the trailer for the movie, you're not going to like the movie, right? So, if you don't like the Good Reads highlights, you are not going to like the book. I can almost guarantee you. And side note on that, you were mentioning, you know, what am I optimizing for, which sounds very much like it could be a Derek Sivers question. He has a lot of good questions. A variant on that that I've also found helpful is what game am I playing? We're all playing games. So, it's like aside from shelter, food, a handful of the basics at the very bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, like we're all playing games. So, what games are you playing? What are you trying to win? And becoming cognizant of the that is for me at least step one. And I think I don't know if this is a question that you've asked before, but like is that game worth winning? You know, like is this something that like am I climbing the right mountain or do I need to be climbing a different one? Cuz that's very important to make sure that you're in in the right game. Yeah, totally. So, you mentioned the tools not mattering so much. Choosing the inputs, we talked about books. Mhm.”
“Like Small Giants by Bo Burlingham. I think the subtitle was companies that choose to be great instead of big or something like that.”
“Quick side sell for Morgan, The Psychology of Money. The title may seem generic, the book is outstanding.”
“Or Power of Habit is another example. If you look at the table of contents there, I think he does habits of individuals, habits of businesses, and then habits of societies.”
“And another one that I looked at, I can't remember which one of Cal Newport's books it but it was either Deep Work or something like that.”
“Extreme Ownership by Jocko. So, the idea is you take ownership and responsibility for your life, but you do it like in this extreme way.”
“Four-Hour Workweek is a good example of this. Nobody really used that phrase before the book.”
“Another example that might be like Rich Dad, Poor Dad. You know, so that book has this element of contrast between the between the two.”
“Similar to what you did with 4-Hour Body and so on, I did it like a series of bonuses.”