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

Charles Duhigg

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
Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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Belief Community Occur
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
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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Best Enjoyment Exercise Genuine Reward Start Way
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Choice Power Reality 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
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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I think I’m smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn’t a lot I could point to and say, that’s why I’m special.
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Goodness Known Myself Smart Special Thinking
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
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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Agency Authority Decision Employee Energy Job Simplicity
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
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
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
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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Alcohol Behaviour Change Drive Effort Reality Smoking Understand
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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