Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGGMaking your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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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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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 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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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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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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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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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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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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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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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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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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 Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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