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Charles Duhigg has 138 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad…
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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go…
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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…
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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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…
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The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then…
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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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Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it…
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Shampoo doesn’t have to foam, but we add foaming chemicals because people expect it each time they wash their hair. Same thing…
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As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over…
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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If you want to do something that requires willpower—like going for a run after work—you have to conserve your willpower muscle during…
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If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them…
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Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit…
— Charles Duhigg
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To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns.…
— Ajahn Chah
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To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
— Jean Toomer
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Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with…
— Martin Amis
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that…
— Charles Kuralt
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From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There is no hurry anywhere else except in your mind. If you really want to be in a state of peace and…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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