At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
CHARLES DUHIGGBelief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
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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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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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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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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 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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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 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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