The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
CHARLES DUHIGGThis is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Champions 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.
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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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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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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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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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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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