If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
CHARLES DUHIGGSome 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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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.
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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.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
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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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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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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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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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Simply 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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