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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.

Charles Duhigg

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Advantage Application Small Win
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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Anand Thakur
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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Agency Authority Decision Employee Energy Job Simplicity
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Commitment Competition Heel Investment Research
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Civil Company Family War
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Agent Expert Insurance Risk
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
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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Change Easy Effort Fast Shape Time
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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Conservation Day Run Willpower Work
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Hide Important Known Yourself
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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Agency Follow Order People Routine Understand Wonder
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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Choice Day Feeling Habit Product
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
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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Champion Fast Follow Habit Learning Ordinary Reaction Thinking
If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Believe Change Habit Reality 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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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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