Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
CHARLES DUHIGGIf you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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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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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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