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.
CHARLES DUHIGGMost of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
-
-
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
CHARLES DUHIGG -
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
CHARLES DUHIGG