For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
CHARLES DUHIGGThere’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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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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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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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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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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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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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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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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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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