Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
CHARLES DUHIGGChampions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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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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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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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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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