It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe same process that makes AA so effective-the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe-happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
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The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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I think I’m smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn’t a lot I could point to and say, that’s why I’m special.
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The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.
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Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
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