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.
CHARLES DUHIGGI 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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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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The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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