Episode Notes

How to create good habits and break bad ones.

This episode is part of the Habits series. In this excerpt from my interview with Scott Mitchell (episode 29), Scott and I discuss what atomic habits are, how to use them to create good habits and break bad ones, how I started implementing them in my daily routine more than a year ago, the difference between flow and deliberate practice, and why you should schedule your leisure time.

Links

• Habit tracker sheets template
• Flow
• Deliberate practice
• How To Start New Habits That Actually Stick by James Clear
• Nono's sketches
• Interview with Scott Young

Books

• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• Ultralearning by Scott Young

People mentioned

• Scott Mitchell
• James Clear
• Scott Young
• Cal Newport
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Anders Ericsson

Chapters

• 00:00 · Intro
• 00:43 · Atomic habits
• 02:59 · How to create good habits (and break bad ones)
• 03:57 · Don't break the chain
• 05:41 · Meditation
• 06:08 · Writing
• 06:32 · Sketching
• 06:53 · Why?
• 08:15 · Discipline, flow, and deliberate practice
• 09:47 · Scheduling your leisure time
• 11:15 · Things are not obvious
• 11:57 · Outro

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