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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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General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that…
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The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes…
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Mans self-awareness is the progenitor of his alienation, fear, egocentrism, and anxiety; therefore, the unexamined life is worth living for the human…
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