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

Charles Duhigg

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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Easy Freedom Habit Option Understand Yourself
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
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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Agency Authority Decision Employee Energy Job Simplicity
Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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Bad Change Gold Habit Yourself
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Commitment Competition Heel Investment Research
The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.
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Agency Follow Order People Routine Understand Wonder
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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Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
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
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
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself

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