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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.

Charles Duhigg

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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Change Habit Old Reward Routine
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
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
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
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
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
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
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
At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
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Behavior Change Moments Point Weakness
The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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Ability Amazing Finding Happiness Memories
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 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
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
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
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
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War

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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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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