Charles Duhigg Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

  Charles Duhigg

  War, Years, Long

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.162, Random House

• If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

  Charles Duhigg

  Old Habits, Dresses, Accepting

• What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

  Charles Duhigg

  Exercise, Numbers, Giving

  "How to Form a Good Habit". bigthink.com.

• Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. 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

  Vacation, Old Habits, Differences

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership.

  Charles Duhigg

  Strong, Ties, Giving

• The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.

  Charles Duhigg

  Children, Shopping, Window

  "Habits: How They Form And How To Break Them". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 5, 2012.

• 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.

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

  Charles Duhigg

  Routine, Rewards, Habit

• 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

• 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.

• But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward--craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment--will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come.

  Charles Duhigg

  Morning, Shoes, Accomplishment

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