Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
CHARLES DUHIGGIt 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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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 believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
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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.
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