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.
CHARLES DUHIGGIf 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.
CHARLES DUHIGGAmerica is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
CHARLES DUHIGGOnce 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.
CHARLES DUHIGGCompanies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
CHARLES DUHIGGSimply 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.
CHARLES DUHIGGSince the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
CHARLES DUHIGGBetween calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGGThis is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
CHARLES DUHIGGResearch suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
CHARLES DUHIGGWhat studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
CHARLES DUHIGGMost of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
CHARLES DUHIGGThere’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
CHARLES DUHIGGI 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.
CHARLES DUHIGGSelf-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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