The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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What habit do you want to change? The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. If you can diagnose your habits, you can change them in any way you want. Habits aren't destiny. By harnessing the new science of habit, we can transform our businesses, our communities and our lives.
I will put here something that took me a couple of years to really understand about the whole habit thing and how it can be used in every area of life. And although I understood all the things in the book it just recently clicked for me and everything made sense. Keep with my thought. Probably most of you have had hard time working out, studying or doing something else that you knew it needed to be done, but it was hard and you felt lazy. I know I did. Everybody around us tells us that we need to be disciplined, ambitious, have will power to do things that needed to be done, although we felt inner resilience against them. I know I have talked to myself: " Why do I feel this repulsion against studying, or something else. I need to enforce it, use my willpower, etc." Bullshit! Go again to the brain activity of the rat. It looks lazy, unmotivated, but its brain is working like hell. That's your inner resilience against new things. Your brain doesn't want new things, and when it deals with it, it uses a lot of energy to process the new thing. That's why when you start something new, you can't do much fruitful work, you are quickly exhausted, etc. But when you do just enough regularly, as much as you can every time, without being harsh on yourself, you notice how you can do more and more work, much more effectively, without inner resilience or feeling exhausted. That's the habit stage, the brain no longer is on fire processing new info. In summary, when you start something new, it's absolutely normal to not achieve much, feel quickly exhausted and have inner resilience. The more you do the habit, the more it sticks, until you reach a moment when you can study for several hours in a row, and feel great. That's when you start achieving your goals . Hope you understood my idea.
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It's like he stopped the presentation halfway after the guy asked the question. I wanted more :/
@Gitohandro15:40 Chemical
@ajinkyatamhane985He wrote a book of habits after invading another country!
@naifradi2229This is my favorite of the power of habit book summary:
https://youtu.be/MTeKM16zA5M
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the target pregnancy story was in Freakonomics
@tschr979The best plan is to have a great time management strategy and execute it. Thanks
@jamesyoukhanis5074I think music is a reward when you are working on a repetitive task.😊
@leslieaharden618313:04 : exercise habit , chcolate reward
@pulkitjain9604It's quite entertaining!
@zaitoshinanigan7745Thankyou Charles for the wonderful book and this talk. You are amazing. The way you were explaining with a smile is incredible. I loved it. Your enthusiasm to listen questions was appreciable. The way you answered flawlessly was more satisfying than anything. God bless you. And again a big THANKS all the way from INDIA🇮🇳. Lots of love❤
@deepakjadhav7506Good crisis mgt talk
@ywho2328💘
@DJSTOEKMuch research has been done in recent years on how our habits shape us, and this work is beautifully described in the new book The Power of Habit.
The Power of Habit Book By Charles Duhigg (PDF-Summary-Review-Online Reading-Download): https://www.toevolution.com/file/view/618043/the-power-of-habit-book-by-charles-duhigg-pdf-summary-review-online-reading-download
He looks like the professor
@mellowout2686👏👏👏👏👏👏
@jamsheedbegum1067GREAT 👍
@jamsheedbegum1067I know looking for the reasons of behaviour is just another road of another road of roads of mankind, not saying it does not have great benefits to know the whys of life. Thank you for sharing, very good! It's good for all the roads of mankind. And personally I believe it will eventually lead us to the only way, truth and "the" Life that comes God alone. Very well articulated, I enjoyed this very much. Thank you!
@mountainbrease2723Charles Duhigg sounds like Doohickey lol
@aeksinsang932He conveys happiness delivering his message. Smiling as if he is talking about his vacation. Interesting.
@izak-jn3viThis book was really eye opening, so go and check it out
Great talk, really enjoyed it and learned a lot.
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@besoulfitness843Brilliant! Thanks, Charles.
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@westechmedia4567After read the book, this is a very good follow up..
@DarnellPantowl like you
@kailashkumbhakar9388Cue routine and reward
V.good information
GREAT INFORMATION..💯💪💪
@fydoescobedo7302My favorite YouTube
Awesome and interesting 😊
Good stuff
@irfankazi7971Such an intelligent and highly educated man. Thanks for the video!
@Ted44fsgreat
@JayJay-tb2rcNow I feel like buying Febreez
@ModjoCastso interesting!
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