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.
CHARLES DUHIGGThis is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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