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 DUHIGGIf you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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 same process that makes AA so effective-the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe-happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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