Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
CHARLES DUHIGGMaking your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
CHARLES DUHIGGRather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
CHARLES DUHIGGOnce 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 DUHIGGThe 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 DUHIGGBetween calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGGWhen people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
CHARLES DUHIGGChampions 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.
CHARLES DUHIGGFor a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
CHARLES DUHIGGWhat studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
CHARLES DUHIGGIf 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 DUHIGGHabits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
CHARLES DUHIGGAt some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
CHARLES DUHIGGSmall wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
CHARLES DUHIGGAmerica is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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