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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

Charles Duhigg

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
Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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Brain Effort Habit Save Science Way
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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Community Creation Disbelief Experience Powerful Share
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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People Right Success Yourself
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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Hard Work Power Skill Tired Willpower
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
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.
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Alcohol Behaviour Change Drive Effort Reality Smoking Understand
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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Acceptance Habit Public Yourself
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Change Habit Life Yourself
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
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 believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Believe Change Habit Reality Yourself
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
For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Believe Change Habit People Possible Stay
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Calculation Division Loss Risk Yourself
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Coal Country Power

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

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