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If you want to do something that requires willpower – like going for a run after work – you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

Charles Duhigg

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
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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Plant Power Relative Waste
Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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Brain Effort Habit Save Science Way
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
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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Community Effect Individual Process Teaching
There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
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Fight Friendship Natural Sympathy Treat
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Believe Change Habit Reality Yourself
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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Community Creation Disbelief Experience Powerful Share
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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Easy Freedom Habit Option Understand Yourself
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
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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Champion Fast Follow Habit Learning Ordinary Reaction Thinking
What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
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Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Choice Power Reality Yourself

If you want to do something that requires willpower – like going for a run after work – you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

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If you want to do something that requires willpower – like going for a run after work – you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

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