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…remaining part of a group after achieving a goal is crucial to maintaining your habits. It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.
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Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior.
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There is tremendous internal pressure to comply with the norms of the group.
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The urge for humans to conform to the social norms of the group can be irresistible.
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Rethinking depends on a different kind of network: a challenge network, a group of people we trust to point out our blind spots and help us overcome our weaknesses.
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As stereotypes stick and prejudice deepens, we don’t just identify with our own group; we disidentify with our adversaries, coming to define who we are by what we’re not.
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When people hold prejudice toward a rival group, they’re often willing to do whatever it takes to elevate their own group and undermine their rivals – even if it means doing harm or doing wrong.
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For decades psychologists have found that people can feel animosity toward other groups even when the boundaries between them are trivial.
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In every human society, people are motivated to seek belonging and status. Identifying with a group checks both boxes at the same time: we become part of a tribe, and we take pride when our tribe winds.
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…when groups get bigger than about 150, the people are less likely to work hard and less likely to help each other out.
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