Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
CHARLES DUHIGGSmall wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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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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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.
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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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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