Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
CHARLES DUHIGGResearch suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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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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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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The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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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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