11 best insights from THE POWER OF HABIT:
1. Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
2. The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
3. Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.
4. Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.
5. Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
6. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
7. THE FRAMEWORK: • Identify the routine • Experiment with rewards • Isolate the cue • Have a plan.
8. Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
9. Habits are powerful, but delicate.
They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed.
They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed.
10. A huge body of research has shown that small wins have enormous power, an influence disproportionate to the accomplishments of the victories themselves
11. 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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