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.
CHARLES DUHIGGResearch suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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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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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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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