The insight has been adopted from Charles’s Duhigg’s best selling book, The Power of Habit and can help to radically improve the performance of your employees.
“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.”
Charles Duhigg – The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg mentions the power of cravings in influencing new habits. The following extract illustrates how cravings drive new habits.
“Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier. It’s as true now as it was almost a century ago. Every night, millions of people scrub their teeth in order to get a tingling feeling; every morning, millions put on their jogging shoes to capture an endorphin rush they’ve learned to crave.”
Charles Duhigg – The Power of Habit
Travis Bradberry illuminates how Emotional Intelligence has a huge role to play in GOOD DECISION making in his book Emotional Intelligence 2.0.
“Good decisions require far more than factual knowledge. They are made using self-knowledge and emotional mastery when they’re needed most.”
Travis Bradberry – Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Simon Sinek’s famous quote cautions us from being reactive and provides the prescription to become insanely innovative.
When we focus on the competition, we become reactive. When we focus on improving ourselves, we become innovative.
Simon Sinek
Choose between Dopamine driven excitement & oxytocin driven fulfillment. Simon Sinek’s quote subtly directs us towards Fulfillment.
Simon Sinek
Charles Duhigg throws light on the working of the brain and formation of habit loop in his best selling book The Power of Habit. Great insight and a inspiration to inculcate good habits for a healthy life.
“This process within our brains is a three-step loop. First, there is a cue, a trigger that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and which habit to use. Then there is the routine, which can be physical or mental or emotional. Finally, there is a reward, which helps your brain figure out if this particular loop is worth remembering for the future: THE HABIT LOOP”
The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
The following insight shared by Simon Sinek in his best selling book, The Infinite Game, makes is very clear why we should all learn to adopt an infinite mindset.
“An infinite mindset embraces abundance whereas a finite mindset operates with a scarcity mentality. In the Infinite Game we accept that “being the best” is a fool’s errand and that multiple players can do well at the same time.”
Simon Sinek – The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek’s great and inspiration quote makes us aware that winning or losing does not matter in an infinite game of life. Effort should be directed towards playing the game rather than focusing on results.
Nir Eyal has very nicely mentioned the truth around the lifecycle of habit forming products in his book Hooked. Read this wonderful insight to know more about habit forming products.
“Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves (vitamins) but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves (painkillers).”
Hooked – Nir Eyal
Further to the lifecycle of habit forming products, read another wonderful insight on habit forming products.
To know about a similar insight on habit forming products, read this blog post.
https://viewpointsunplugged.com/ultimate-goal-of-a-habit-forming-product/
And finally to know more about the author Nir Eyal read this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Eyal
Also please do not forget to grab a copy of the book named Hooked from Nir Eyal. This is your first step towards building a habit forming product.
https://www.amazon.in/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products-ebook/dp/B00NW01MKM
Charles Duhigg illuminates us with this fascinating insight in The Power of Habit.
“As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.”
The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg