James Clear - Atomic Habits and Building a New Identity After Retirement
A challenging aspect of early retirement is the loss of identity you may experience when leaving a career you’ve spent a big chunk of your life building.
However, one of the most exciting parts of early retirement is that you have the time, money, and freedom to create a completely new identity!
How do you do it though?
Today, I had the privilege to speak to the writer who has been most helpful to me as I’ve started building my own new identity – James Clear.
In this episode, we discuss habits, deliberate practice, and how to best create a meaningful and purpose-driven life!
Highlights:
- What makes life meaningful and how to live better
- The importance of social connections
- How to deal with the “pain of discipline”
- The physics of productivity and why habits are so powerful
- The importance of having an easy on-ramp to a task
- Why a habit must be established before it can be improved
- How to find a keystone habit that can improve multiple areas of your life
- Why you should optimize for the starting line rather than the finish line
- The downsides of habits
- What is deliberate practice and why it’s important
- How habits can change your identity
- Why rewards are good (but only if they don’t conflict with your new identity)
- What is intermittent fasting and why it’s beneficial