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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

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
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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Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
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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Choice Day Feeling Habit Product
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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Brain Effort Habit Save Science Way
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
Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.
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Hard Work Power Skill Tired Willpower
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
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
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
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
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
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
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Belief Community Occur

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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