My work as an accent reduction and public speaking coach is all about habits: helping people to form good habits, and let go of unwanted habits, when it comes to their speaking.

I wanted to see how my coaching practices measure up against the teaching of the bestselling expert on habits.

I'm pleased (and relieved!) to find that there's a lot of overlap between James Clear's thinking, and the methods I use in my coaching to get speakers into new and better habits

Does it work to have 'two voices'? Or do you have to settle for one sound, one accent, in order to truly be yourself?

There's some challenging ideas here for me as a practitioner of what I still call 'accent reduction' and sometimes 'elocution'