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.
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.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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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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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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