black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

Charles Duhigg

When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Failure People Situation Willpower Yourself
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Expression Listening Music Personal Place Value
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Anand Thakur
At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Behavior Change Moments Point Weakness
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Agent Expert Insurance Risk
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
CHARLES DUHIGG

People Right Success Yourself
Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Brain Effort Habit Save Science Way
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Community Creation Disbelief Experience Powerful Share
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Plant Power Relative Waste
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Advantage Application Small Win
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Civil Company Family War
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.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Easy Freedom Habit Option Understand Yourself
The cooperation of NASCAR – or any other system, it turns out – persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
CHARLES DUHIGG

Bad Change Gold Habit Yourself

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Charles Duhigg Quotes