Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“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. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“To modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consciously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits’ routines, and find alternatives”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“If you believe you can change—if you make it a habit—the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Once that choice occurs—and becomes automatic—it’s not only real, it starts to seem inevitable.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“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.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“Want to exercise more? Choose a cue, such as going to the gym as soon as you wake up, and a reward, such as a smoothie after each workout. Then think about that smoothie, or about the endorphin rush you’ll feel. Allow yourself to anticipate the reward. Eventually, that craving will make it easier to push through the gym doors every day.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“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”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“It wasn’t God that mattered, the researchers figured out. It was belief itself that made a difference. 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.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit
“Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit..
“The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.”