The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
CHARLES DUHIGGRather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
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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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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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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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Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.
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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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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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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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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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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 tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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