Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
CHARLES DUHIGGWillpower 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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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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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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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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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