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.
CHARLES DUHIGGAmerica is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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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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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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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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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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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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What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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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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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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