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.
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.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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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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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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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Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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