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.
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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
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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 brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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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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