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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.

Charles Duhigg

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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Fight Friendship Natural Sympathy Treat
If you want to do something that requires willpower – like going for a run after work – you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.
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Conservation Day Run Willpower Work
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life 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
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
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known 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
The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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Ability Amazing Finding Happiness Memories
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
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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Plant Power Relative Waste
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
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
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Easy Goodness Habit
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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Behavior Change Moments Point Weakness

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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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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