For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
CHARLES DUHIGGOnce 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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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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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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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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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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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The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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