For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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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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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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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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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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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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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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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 same process that makes AA so effective-the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe-happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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