The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
CHARLES DUHIGGRather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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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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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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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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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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