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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

Charles Duhigg

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
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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Bad Change Gold Habit Yourself
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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Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
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
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
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power
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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Bed Better Budget Morning Production Strong
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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Alcohol Behaviour Change Drive Effort Reality Smoking Understand
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
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
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
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself

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