Just over four years ago, I interviewed my friend James Clear about his, then, new book Atomic Habits. Little did I know then that this book would rock the publishing world and become a worldwide bestseller.

I call it a modern-day 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, or How to Win Friends and Influence People, or Think and Grow Rich.

I had the chance to exchange messages with James over the weekend, and took the opportunity to congratulate him on his incredible milestone (I’d seen a recent post of his on Facebook about it). That milestone is 10MM+ copies sold.

In his post, James was quick to credit everyone else. More than anything he did, James said, it was simple, consistent, and passionate word-of-mouth by us, his readers, that was responsible for his book’s success.

Our exchange inspired me to honor this incredible milestone by revisiting the book in this episode.

This go ’round, I’m sharing an audio summary of Atomic Habits, the audio version of the same written summary I share with my members inside the Read to Lead Community.

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In today’s episode, I feature Atomic Habits. including:

* The importance of focusing on small, incremental changes, or “atomic habits,” to achieve long-term goals.

* The role of identity in shaping habits and how adopting the identity of the person you want to become can influence your behavior.

* The influence of environment on habits and the importance of designing a supportive environment that makes it easy to develop good habits and difficult to fall back into bad ones.

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458: Over 10MM Copies Sold: My Summary of Atomic Habits by James Clear

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