It 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.
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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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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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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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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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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