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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.

Charles Duhigg

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
If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Believe Change Habit Reality 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
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
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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Community Effect Individual Process Teaching
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
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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Choice Day Feeling Habit Product
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Choice Power Reality Yourself
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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Goodness Known Myself Smart Special Thinking
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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Bed Better Budget Morning Production Strong
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
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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Plant Power Relative Waste
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
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Acceptance Habit Public Yourself

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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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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