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.
CHARLES DUHIGGSince the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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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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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 believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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 dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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