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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.

Charles Duhigg

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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Community Effect Individual Process Teaching
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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Plant Power Relative Waste
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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Brain Difference Oneself Problem Reward Yourself
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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Behavior Change Moments Point Weakness
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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Expression Listening Music Personal Place Value
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
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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Believe Cooperation Himself Opportunity System Win
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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Fight Friendship Natural Sympathy Treat
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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Goodness Known Myself Smart Special Thinking
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Focus Habit Yourself
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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Choice Power Reality Yourself
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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Change Habit Old Reward Routine
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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Failure People Situation Willpower Yourself
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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Bed Better Budget Morning Production Strong
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War

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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