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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

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
Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
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Change Easy Effort Fast Shape Time
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
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
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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Brain Difference Oneself Problem Reward 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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Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
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
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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Hard Work Power Skill Tired Willpower
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
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Commitment Competition Heel Investment Research
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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Expression Listening Music Personal Place Value
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 tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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People Right Success Yourself
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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Conservation Day Run Willpower Work
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
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk 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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