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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right
Charles Duhigg
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Charles Duhigg
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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New Mexico
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If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.
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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.
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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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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
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Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.
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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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Simply 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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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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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
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