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and insanely long rst dra into a tight, readable manuscript. And I am

thankful to Anne Barngrover for her ability to add a little class and poet ic
style to my writing.
I’d like to thank the many people who read early versions of the
manuscript, including Bruce Ammons, Darcey Ansell, Tim Ballard, Vishal

Bhardwaj, Charlotte Blank, Jerome Burt, Sim Campbell, Al Carlos, Nicky
Case, Julie Chang, Jason Collins, Debra Croy, Roger Dooley, Tiago Forte,
Matt Gartland, Andrew Gierer, Randy Giffen, Jon Giganti, Adam Gilber t,
Stephan Guyenet, Jeremy Hendon, Jane Hor vath, Joakim Jansson, Josh

Kaufman, Anne Kavanagh, Chris Klaus, Zeke Lopez, Cady Macon, Cyd
Madsen, Kiera McGrath, Amy Mitchell, Anna Moise, Stacey Morris, Tara-
Nicholle Nelson, Taylor Pearson, Max Shank, Trey Shelton, Jason Shen,
Jacob Zangelidis, and Ari Zelmanow. e book bene ted greatly from your

feedback.
To the team at Aver y and Penguin Random House who made this book a
reality, thank you. I owe a debt of special thanks to my publisher, Megan
Newman, for her endless patience as I continually pushed back deadlines.

She gave me the space I needed to create a book I was proud of and
championed my ideas at ever y step. To Nina, for her ability to transform my
writing while still ret aining my original message. To Lindsay, Farin, Casey,
and the rest of the PRH team for spreading the message of this book to more

people than I could ever reach on my own. To Pete Garceau, for designing a
beautiful cover for this book.
And to my agent, Lisa DiMona, for her guidance and insight at ever y step
of the publishing process.

To the many friends and family members who asked “How’s the book
going?” and offered a word of encouragement when I inevitably replied
“Slowly”—thank you. Ever y author faces a few dark moments when writing
a book, and one kind word can be enough to get you to show up again the

next day.
I am sure there are people I have forgotten, but I keep an updated list of
anyone who has in uenced my thinking in meaningful ways at
james clear.com/thanks.

And nally, to you. Life is short and you have shared some of your
precious time with me by reading this book. ank you.
—May 2018