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.
CHARLES DUHIGGWhen people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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 dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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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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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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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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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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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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