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.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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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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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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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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There’s a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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