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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.

Charles Duhigg

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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Anand Thakur
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power
Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
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Change Habit Old Reward Routine
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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Agency Follow Order People Routine Understand Wonder
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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Community Effect Individual Process Teaching
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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Champion Fast Follow Habit Learning Ordinary Reaction Thinking
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Commitment Competition Heel Investment Research
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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Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
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Failure People Situation Willpower Yourself
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Acceptance Habit Public Yourself
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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Easy Freedom Habit Option Understand Yourself
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Choice Power Reality Yourself
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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Agency Authority Decision Employee Energy Job Simplicity
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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Change Easy Effort Fast Shape Time
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit

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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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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