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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 Duhigg

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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Plant Power Relative Waste
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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Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
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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Choice Day Feeling Habit Product
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.
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Flexible Kind Marketing Moments Window Yourself
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Belief Community Occur
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
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Expression Listening Music Personal Place Value
If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Believe Change Habit Reality Yourself
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
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
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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Conservation Day Run Willpower Work
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
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
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
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

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.

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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.

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