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.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe 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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Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
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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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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
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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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What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
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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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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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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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
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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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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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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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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.
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Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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