Is Your Identity a Habit?

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A habit is only a habit if it becomes an is your identity on a consistent basis. If it's not your identity, then, and you're not, then you're not doing it. And so early on the kind of the first stage when you're practicing it, I think the number one thing you need to do is scale it down. The second stage is you start to get some like other rewards associated with it. Then ultimately the final stage or a later stage is now it feels like it's kind of part of my identity.

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James Clear is a writer and speaker focused on habits, decision making, and continuous improvement. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits. Clear is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work has been featured in places like Time magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and on CBS This Morning. His popular "3-2-1" email newsletter is sent out each week to more than 2 million subscribers.

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