If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
CHARLES DUHIGGRather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
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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 more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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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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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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