Charles Duhigg

Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

The Power of Habit

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 to change it. You must consciously 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.»

Ayesha 

Habits can be changed, if we understand how they work 

Belief is easier when it occurs within a community 

I THINK THE GREATEST POWER IS BELIEF FOR WHAT IS A GOD WITHOUT IT

For some habits, however, there's one other ingredient that's necessary: belief.

Then again, all elite performers are obsessive.

"We're not in the coffee business serving people... We're in the people business serving coffee."

The hospital's routines weren't carefully thought out. Rather, they appeared by accident and spread through whispered warnings, until toxic patterns emerged. This can happen within any organisation where habits aren deliberately planned. Just as choosing the right keystone habits can create amazing change, the wrong ones can create disaster.

Deatructive organisational habits can be found within hundreds of industries and at thousands of firms. And almost always, they are products of thoughtlessness, of leaders who avoid thinking about the culture and so let it develop without guidance. 

Cassandra Tang

The brain can be reprogrammed. You just have to be deliberate about it.

By dressing something new in old clothes, and making the unfamiliar seem familiar.

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