James Clear

James Clear is an American author, entrepreneur and one of the world's most influential writers on habit formation and behaviour change. His book Atomic Habits (2018) has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, been translated into dozens of languages, and built a devoted global readership by showing how small, compounding 1-percent improvements can produce extraordinary results over time.

Clear spent years distilling research from psychology, neuroscience and his own athletic career into the popular newsletter and articles at JamesClear.com, which earned millions of readers. Atomic Habits gave the world ideas such as habit stacking, identity-based habits and the four laws of behaviour change — a practical system for building good habits and breaking bad ones without relying on willpower. He is also a guest lecturer at Columbia University and a sought-after advisor to leading organisations.