Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe 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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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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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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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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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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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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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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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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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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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