Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
CHARLES DUHIGGRather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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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 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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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