Charles Duhigg (1974-)

Charles Duhigg quotes

• A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances.

  Charles Duhigg

• It grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together.

  Charles Duhigg

• Whether selling a new song, a new food, or a new crib, the lesson is the same: If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

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• Peer pressure—and the social habits that encourage people to conform to group expectations—is difficult to describe, because it often differs in form and expression from person to person. These social habits aren’t so much one consistent pattern as dozens

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• If you want to do something that requires willpower—like going for a run after work—you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

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• Rewards are powerful because they satisfy cravings. But we ́re often not conscious of the cravings that drive our behaviors

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• A habit is a formula our brain automatically follows: When I see CUE, I will do ROUTINE in order to get a REWARD.

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

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• This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

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• THE FRAMEWORK: • Identify the routine • Experiment with rewards • Isolate the cue • Have a plan

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• “Belief is the biggest part of success in professional football,” Dungy told me. “The team wanted to believe, but when things got really tense, they went back to their comfort zones and old habits.”

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• However, by understanding habits’ mechanisms, we gain insights that make new behaviors easier to grasp.

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• Studies have documented that families who habitually eat dinner together seem to raise children with better homework skills, higher grades, greater emotional control, and more confidence.

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• If you focus on changing or cultivating keystone habits, you can cause widespread shifts. However, identifying keystone habits is tricky. To find them, you have to know where to look.

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• Detecting keystone habits means searching out certain characteristics. Keystone habits offer what is known within academic literature.

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

  Charles Duhigg