Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe 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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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
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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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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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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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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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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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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
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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.
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