Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
CHARLES DUHIGGResearch suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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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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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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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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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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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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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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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