Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
CHARLES DUHIGGBelief is easier when it occurs within a community.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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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