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If we can become sensitive to situations in which the social-proof autopilot is working with inaccurate information, we can disengage the mechanism and grasp the controls when necessary.
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191 |
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Environment design allows you to take back control and become the architect of your life. Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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87 |
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Self-control is a short-term strategy, not a long-term one. You may be able to resist temptation once or twice, but it’s unlikely you can muster the willpower to override your desires every time.
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95 |
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This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues to your bad habits invisible.
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95 |
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To change behavior, products must ensure the users feel in control. People must want to use the service, not feel they have to.
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125 |
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Stress… is no more and no less than the inability to predict and control the forces that shape our lives.
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62 |
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When you are overwhelmed, when you can neither predict nor control the forces shaping your time, when you don’t even have time to think about why you’re overwhelmed, much less what to do about it, you’re powerless.
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68 |
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Nearly two-thirds of all employed workers, both women and men, say they’d rather own their own business for the freedom that would give them to control their time.
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88 |
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…new research is finding that better work gets done when workers have more control over and predictability about their time and workflow, and when managers focus on the mission…
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88 |
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Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.
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110 |
