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 DUHIGGSimply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
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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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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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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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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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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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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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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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