Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
CHARLES DUHIGGIf you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
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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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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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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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