Sam Harris speaks with James Clear about habit formation. They discuss the difference between creating good habits and discontinuing bad ones, the role of the environment, the misalignment between immediate and long term outcomes, the remembering self vs the experiencing self, goals vs systems, the compounding of incremental gains, the role of attention, the four laws of behavior change, "temptation bundling," and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.

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#200 — Creatures of Habit

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Sam Harris Episodes Around April 29, 2020

#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#186 — The Bomb

#187 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#189 — Wealth & Happiness

#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus?

#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic

#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#193 — Meditation in an Emergency

#194 — The New Future of Work

#195 — Social Cohesion is Everything

#196 — The Science of Happiness

#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#200 — Creatures of Habit

#201 — A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

#202 — A Conversation with Andrew Yang

#203 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#204 — A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

#205 — The Failure of Meritocracy

#206 — A Conversation with David Frum

#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

#208 — Existential Risk

#209 — A Good Life

#210 — The Logic of Doomsday

#211 — The Nature of Human Nature

#212 — A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden

#213 — The Worst Epidemic

#214 — A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee

#215 — A Conversation with David Miliband

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