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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

Charles Duhigg

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Anand Thakur
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Change Habit Life Yourself
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Acceptance Habit Public 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
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 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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Community Effect Individual Process Teaching
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
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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Choice Day Feeling Habit Product
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
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
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
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
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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Brain Difference Oneself Problem Reward Yourself
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Belief Community Occur
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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Change Habit Old Reward Routine

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