Charles Duhigg Quotes
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right
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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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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
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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.
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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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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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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.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
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If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.
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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 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.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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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.
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When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
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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.
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Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
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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.
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
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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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