Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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If you want to do something that requires willpower – like going for a run after work – you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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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 brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing 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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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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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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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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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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