Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
CHARLES DUHIGGChampions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.
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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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The cooperation of NASCAR – or any other system, it turns out – persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
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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.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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If you want to do something that requires willpower – like going for a run after work – you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.
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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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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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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The 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.
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Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
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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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