James Clear - Atomic Habits and Building a New Identity After Retirement

<p>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.</p> <p>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!</p> <p>How do you do it though?</p> <p>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.</p> <p>In this episode, we discuss habits, deliberate practice, and how to best create a meaningful and purpose-driven life!</p> <p>Highlights:</p> <ul> <li>What makes life meaningful and how to live better</li> <li>The importance of social connections</li> <li>How to deal with the “pain of discipline”</li> <li>The physics of productivity and why habits are so powerful</li> <li>The importance of having an easy on-ramp to a task</li> <li>Why a habit must be established before it can be improved</li> <li>How to find a keystone habit that can improve multiple areas of your life</li> <li>Why you should optimize for the starting line rather than the finish line</li> <li>The downsides of habits</li> <li>What is deliberate practice and why it’s important</li> <li>How habits can change your identity</li> <li>Why rewards are good (but only if they don’t conflict with your new identity)</li> <li>What is intermittent fasting and why it’s beneficial</li> </ul>