The cooperation of NASCAR – or any other system, it turns out – persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
CHARLES DUHIGGHabits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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 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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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 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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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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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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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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.
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Champions 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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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