When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe cooperation of NASCAR – or any other system, it turns out – persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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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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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 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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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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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
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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 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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