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.
CHARLES DUHIGGWhat 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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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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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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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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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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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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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
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