Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
CHARLES DUHIGGThere’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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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.
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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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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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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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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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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 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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There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
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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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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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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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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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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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