Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Quotes from the 'Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg | Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business |

“Habits can be changed, if we understand how they work.”

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If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

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But to change an old habit, you must address an old craving. You have to keep the same cues and rewards as before, and feed the craving by inserting a new routine.

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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 one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

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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 wondered why no one followed their orders.

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I 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.

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But to change an old habit, you must address an old craving. You have to keep the same cues and rewards as before, and feed the craving by inserting a new routine.

[Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg @PowerOfHabitt]

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

[Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg @PowerOfHabitt]

Habits can be changed, if we understand how they work.

[Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg @PowerOfHabitt]

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.

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First, find a simple and obvious cue. Second, clearly define the rewards.

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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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Good leaders seize crises to remake organizational habits.

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Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

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There’s nothing you can’t do if you get the habits right.

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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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Habits are technically defined as: the choices that all of us deliberately make at some point, and then stop thinking about but continue doing, often every day.

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How are you going to study tonight? What are you going to do tomorrow? How do you know you’re ready for your test?’ It trained me to set goals.

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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.

[Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg @PowerOfHabitt]

The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.

[Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg @PowerOfHabitt]

Habits are technically defined as: the choices that all of us deliberately make at some point, and then stop thinking about but continue doing, often every day.