Charles Duhigg Quotes

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• Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

  Charles Duhigg

  Choices, Decision, Each Day

  "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February, 2012.

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• If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Succeed, Prove

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

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Believe, Habit

  FaceBook post by Charles Duhigg from Aug 10, 2016

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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.

  Charles Duhigg

  Effort, Might, Easy

  "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February 28, 2012.

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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.

  Charles Duhigg

  Responsibility, Habit, Easier

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". Book by Charles Duhigg, www.psychologytoday.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize—they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.

  Charles Duhigg

  Strong, Powerful, Common Sense

  "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February 28, 2012.

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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.

  Charles Duhigg

  Change, Fitness, Patience

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change". Book by Charles Duhigg, April 5, 2012.

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• The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

  Charles Duhigg

  Golden, Habit, Golden Rule

  "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February, 2012.

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• The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

  Charles Duhigg

  Focus, Habit

  "How Not to Spend Your Whole Day on Facebook". bigthink.com.

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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.

  Charles Duhigg

  Powerful, People, Community

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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• When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically.

  Charles Duhigg

  Fighting, Focus, Decision

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.20, Random House

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• This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Habit, Insight

  FaceBook post by Charles Duhigg from Sep 15, 2016

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• Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

  Charles Duhigg

  Self, Discipline, Intellectual

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". Book by Charles Duhigg, www.businessinsider.com. February 28, 2012.

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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.

  Charles Duhigg

  Team, Thinking, Champion

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.61, Random House

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• Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

  Charles Duhigg

  Winning, Small Wins, Advantage

  "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February, 2012.

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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 with laundry detergent. And toothpaste—now every company adds sodium laureth sulfate to make toothpaste foam more. There’s no cleaning benefit, but people feel better when there’s a bunch of suds around their mouth. Once the customer starts expecting that foam, the habit starts growing.

  Charles Duhigg

  Feel Better, Hair, People

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• Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

  Charles Duhigg

  Lying, Loss, Decision

  "5 Steps To Analyze Risk In Your Business" by Jason Olsen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2016.

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• However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Book, Hard Work

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• Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

  Charles Duhigg

  Creating, Sparks, Habit

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.59, Random House

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• Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

  Charles Duhigg

  Effort, Brain, Way

  "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February 28, 2012.

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• What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure - that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Too Late, Labs

  "How to Turn Drinking from One of Life’s Pleasures to a Habit in Three Easy Steps" by Leah Odze Epstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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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.

  Charles Duhigg

  Believe, Skills, People

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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• Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

  Charles Duhigg

  Morning, Skills, Stronger

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.109, Random House

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• For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.

  Charles Duhigg

  Believe, People, Habit

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". Book by Charles Duhigg, www.businessinsider.com. February 28, 2012.

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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.

  Charles Duhigg

  Old Habits, Differences, Waiting

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.20, Random House

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