When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
CHARLES DUHIGGThis is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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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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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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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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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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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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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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