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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Charles Duhigg

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
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Choice Power Reality Yourself
Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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Anand Thakur
The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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Ability Amazing Finding Happiness Memories
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
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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Brain Difference Oneself Problem Reward Yourself
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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Goodness Known Myself Smart Special Thinking
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
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
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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Community Effect Individual Process Teaching
Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
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Agency Authority Decision Employee Energy Job Simplicity
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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Change Easy Effort Fast Shape Time
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
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Belief Community Occur

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