Quotes by Charles Duhigg

Charles Duhigg

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.

Giving

Strong

Ties

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

America

Arabia

Coal

Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

Belief

Community

Easier

Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

Easy

Effort

Might

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

Civil War

Company

War

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.

Long

War

Years

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

Creating

Habit

Sparks

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.

Common Sense

Powerful

Strong

Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

Brain

Effort

Way

However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously 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 — and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.

Book

Hard Work

Real

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Advantage

Agency

America

Arabia

Bankers

Belief

Believe

Book

Brain

Civil War

Coal

Common Sense

Community

Company

Creating

Dirty

Discipline

Easier

Easy

Effort

Embedded

Expression

Feel Better

Fighting

Finding Happiness

Giving

Golden

Golden Rule

Good Habits

Habit

Hair

Hard Work

Intellectual

Investment

Jobs

Listening

Long

Memories

Might

Mom

Natural Instinct

People

Powerful

Real

Research

Responsibility

Rewards

Routine

Self

Self Understanding

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Quotes by Charles Duhigg

Charles Duhigg

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

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