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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.

Charles Duhigg

Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known 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
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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Community Effect Individual Process Teaching
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
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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Expression Listening Music Personal Place Value
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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People Right Success 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
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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Bed Better Budget Morning Production Strong
If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Believe Change Habit Reality Yourself
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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Choice Day Feeling Habit Product
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
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
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
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 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

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