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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.

Charles Duhigg

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.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Conservation Day Run Willpower Work
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Belief Community Occur
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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People Right Success Yourself
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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Behavior Change Moments Point Weakness
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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Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
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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Alcohol Behaviour Change Drive Effort Reality Smoking Understand
When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
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Failure People Situation Willpower Yourself
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
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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Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
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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Change Habit Old Reward Routine
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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Agency Authority Decision Employee Energy Job Simplicity
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
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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Community Creation Disbelief Experience Powerful Share
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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Agency Follow Order People Routine Understand Wonder

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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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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