Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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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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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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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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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.
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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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