The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
CHARLES DUHIGGThere’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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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