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.
CHARLES DUHIGGMost 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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 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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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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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