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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

Charles Duhigg

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
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
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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Expression Listening Music Personal Place Value
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
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
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.
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Alcohol Behaviour Change Drive Effort Reality Smoking Understand
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.
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Hard Work Power Skill Tired Willpower
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
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
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Acceptance Habit Public Yourself
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself
Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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Anand Thakur
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

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