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Some paths are built upon durable habits that will lead to many more good results. Others involve flawed choices…
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105 |
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One problem with afternoons is that if we stick with a task too long, we lose sight of the goal we’re trying to achieve, a process known as ‘habituation.’
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60 |
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Short breaks from a task can prevent habituation, help us maintain focus, and reactivate our commitment to a goal.
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61 |
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Customers drifting away from their former buying habits may provide the most subtle and insidious cause of a strategic inflection point – subtle and insidious because it takes place slowly.
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065 |
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…people need to develop a regular habit of challenging the conventional wisdom. This takes energy and courage, but it takes a process as well.
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Habits, routines, and rituals allow you to put your conscious mind in more interesting places than remembering to put coins in the meter.
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…most of us tend to become fixed in our habits and practices, even when they’re suboptimal.
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…most of us… are creatures of our context, prisoners of the habits, practices, and rules that make us ineffectual.
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031 |
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To free ourselves from habit, to resolve the paradoxes, to transcend conflicts, to become the masters rather than the slaves of our own lives, we must first see and remember, and then forget.
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065 |
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A richer understanding of how and why our minds work as they do is the first step toward breaking the self-justification habit.
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053 |
