All I really wanted to do was play baseball, but I liked school and I was good at school. And there was this one called the St. Gallon symposium that was a conference in Switzerland. If you get selected, if your essay gets chosen, you get to go to Switzerland. Well, that sounds kind of cool. Ultimately, I actually ended up going two years. But I don't know how it would have happened without that essay.
James Clear has been writing about habits, decision making, and continuous improvement for over a decade. Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits, he joins to talk about his career and how we can stop sabotaging our efforts with insurmountable goals.