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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

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
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
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
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
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 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
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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Failure People Situation Willpower Yourself
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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Brain Difference Oneself Problem Reward Yourself
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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Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
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Bed Better Budget Morning Production Strong
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
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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People Right Success Yourself
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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.
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Easy Freedom Habit Option Understand 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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