If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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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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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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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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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
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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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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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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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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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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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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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