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

Charles Duhigg

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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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  Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.

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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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  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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  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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  Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

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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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  Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

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  Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

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  If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.

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  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.

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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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  Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.

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  For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.

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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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  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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