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.
CHARLES DUHIGGSimply 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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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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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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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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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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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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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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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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