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

Charles Duhigg

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
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself
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
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
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
The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.
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Agency Follow Order People Routine Understand Wonder
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Choice Power Reality Yourself
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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Champion Fast Follow Habit Learning Ordinary Reaction Thinking
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Belief Community Occur
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.
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Hard Work Power Skill Tired Willpower
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
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
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
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
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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Easy Freedom Habit Option Understand Yourself

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

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