Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
CHARLES DUHIGGBelief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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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 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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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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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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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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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