I think I’m smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn’t a lot I could point to and say, that’s why I’m special.
CHARLES DUHIGGHabits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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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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Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.
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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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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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
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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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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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