Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.
CHARLES DUHIGGResearch suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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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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Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
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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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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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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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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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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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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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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