When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
CHARLES DUHIGGBelief is easier when it occurs within a community.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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