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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

Charles Duhigg

Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
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Change Easy Effort Fast Shape Time
Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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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Acceptance Habit Public Yourself
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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Expression Listening Music Personal Place Value
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
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
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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Fight Friendship Natural Sympathy Treat
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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Alcohol Behaviour Change Drive Effort Reality Smoking Understand
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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Failure People Situation Willpower Yourself
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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Goodness Known Myself Smart Special Thinking
If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Believe Change Habit Reality Yourself
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
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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Bed Better Budget Morning Production Strong
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

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