This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe 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.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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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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Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
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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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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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 believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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 more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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