Charles Duhigg
Quotes by Charles Duhigg
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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. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.
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Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior.
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Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.
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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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When we start a new task, or confront an unpleasant chore, we should take a moment to ask ourselves why.
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If you believe you can change— if you make it a habit— the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Once that choice occurs— and becomes automatic— it's not only real, it starts to seem inevitable.
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Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.
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If you believe you can change— if you make it a habit— the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Once that choice occurs— and becomes automatic— it's not only real, it starts to seem inevitable.
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Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.
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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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Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.
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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. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.
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When we start a new task, or confront an unpleasant chore, we should take a moment to ask ourselves why.
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Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior.
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Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.
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Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued almost immediately.
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In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.
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Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn't go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.
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Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.
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The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.
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