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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

Charles Duhigg

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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Community Creation Disbelief Experience Powerful Share
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power
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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Agency Authority Decision Employee Energy Job Simplicity
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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Conservation Day Run Willpower Work
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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Flexible Kind Marketing Moments Window Yourself
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
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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Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself
The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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Ability Amazing Finding Happiness Memories
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
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Behavior Change Moments Point Weakness
Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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