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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.

Charles Duhigg

What 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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Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Acceptance Habit Public Yourself
There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
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Fight Friendship Natural Sympathy Treat
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
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power
Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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Brain Effort Habit Save Science Way
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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Community Creation Disbelief Experience Powerful Share
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Alcohol Behaviour Change Drive Effort Reality Smoking Understand
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Easy Freedom Habit Option Understand Yourself
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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Hard Work Power Skill Tired Willpower
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Community Effect Individual Process Teaching
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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People Right Success Yourself
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Choice Day Feeling Habit Product

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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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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