Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
CHARLES DUHIGGIf you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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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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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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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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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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The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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