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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Anand Thakur
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.
CHARLES DUHIGGIf you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
CHARLES DUHIGGBelief is easier when it occurs within a community.
CHARLES DUHIGGSelf-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
CHARLES DUHIGGHabits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
CHARLES DUHIGGRather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
CHARLES DUHIGGChange might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
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 DUHIGGCompanies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
CHARLES DUHIGGWhen people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
CHARLES DUHIGGAt some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.
CHARLES DUHIGGCravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
CHARLES DUHIGGBetween calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGGThe 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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