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Charles Duhigg
American
Journalist
Born:
1974
Because
Drinking
Nation
People
Water
You
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
Charles Duhigg
Profit
Reckless
Lies
Risk
Dividing
Between
Calculated
Calculated Risk
Line
Loss
Decision-Making
Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.
Charles Duhigg
You
Once
Gears
Components
Habit
Break
Fiddle
Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.
Charles Duhigg
Money
Long
Few
Appropriate
Considered
Those
Daredevil
Borrowed
Cash
Bets
Only
Risky
Outstanding
Safe
Least
Were
Dull
Hand
Lots
Stock
Debts
Stocks
Might
Companies
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.
Charles Duhigg
Woman
Suffering
Charity
Mother
Nuns
Bengali
Indian
Disappeared
Remote
Mission
Missionaries
She
Tumor
Placed
Village
Founded
Monica
Image
A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.
Charles Duhigg
Day
People
Water
Long
Few
Meal
All Day
Drink
Outside
Bottled
Bottled Water
Beverage
Unthinkingly
Springs
Sip
Office
Decades
Then
Workers
Production
Companies
Many
Now
Started
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
Charles Duhigg
Life
Entire
Entire Life
Habits
Throughout
Malleable
Your
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.
Charles Duhigg
You
Down
Other
Late
Rules
Punishment
Out
Promising
Some
Small
Tactics
Throughout
Write
Never
Were
Confessions
Quotations
Again
China
Explaining
Used
Companies
Chairman
Why
Violate
Copy
When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.
Charles Duhigg
People
Values
Group
Our
Marketers
Correspond
Betrayal
Something
Habits
Feels
Like
Does
Influence
Company
Core
Core Values
There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Air
Systems
Would
Prevent
Emission
Discharge
Making
Any
Pollution
Zero
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'
Charles Duhigg
Generation
Marketers
Corporations
Phrase
Adolescence
Vast
Consultants
Consumers
Between
Advertising
Always
Began
Difference
Happily
Explaining
Exploded
Eager
Coin
Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.
Charles Duhigg
Opportunities
Opportunity
Mind
Become
Group
Teenagers
Definition
Out
Running
Someone
New
Because
Always
Ultimately
Elderly
Eventually
Reinvention
Belonging
At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.
Charles Duhigg
You
Behavior
Changing
Weakness
Some
Point
Going
Really
Moment
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
Charles Duhigg
You
Focus
More
Habit
Becomes
You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.
Charles Duhigg
You
Tomorrow
Say
Easy
Habit
New
Brand
Brand New
Expect
Effortless
Want
Suddenly
There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.
Charles Duhigg
Day
Woman
Try
College
Out
Followed
About
College Students
Someone
Percent
Habit
Students
Study
Named
She
Around
How
How Much
Duke
Versus
Did
Behaviors
Wood
Decision-Making
Much
Figure
Who
Found
We like songs that are familiar.
Charles Duhigg
Songs
Like
Familiar
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.
Charles Duhigg
War
Innovation
World
Result
Digital
Become
Digital World
Road
Wage
Patents
Being
Used
Being Used
Toll
Gate
Every habit is made of three parts... a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior, but these cues and rewards are really the way you make something into a habit.
Charles Duhigg
You
People
Behavior
Focus
Made
Three
Every
Way
Something
Habit
Most
Make
Parts
Cue
Rewards
Really
Routine
Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity.
Charles Duhigg
Great
You
Will
Lose
Every
Says
Tells
Someone
Structure
More
Write
Pounds
Abstract
Study
Likely
Terms
Exercise
Accomplish
Goal
Than
Want
Which
Us
Much
Less
Activity
Actual
Things
Pose
Resolution
When most individuals or most companies are talking about trying to create healthy habits, the key is to identify which habit or habits seem most important.
Charles Duhigg
Key
Important
Healthy
About
Seem
Habit
Habits
Individuals
Most
Identify
Talking
Trying
Which
Create
Companies
Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'
Charles Duhigg
Evil
Down
Corporate
Corporation
Says
Emerged
Habit
Habits
Individuals
Nobody
Undermine
Sort
Without
Any
Going
Central
Create
Planning
Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.
Charles Duhigg
Nation
States
Harsh
Factories
Instance
Conditions
Western
Than
Any
Chinese
Much
United
United States
Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn.
Charles Duhigg
Sold
Percent
Forty
Electronics
You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.
Charles Duhigg
Positive
You
People
Better
Punishing
Correctly
Rather
Better Off
Off
Than
Rewards
Them
Much
Creating
Act
Acting
Incorrectly
Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.
Charles Duhigg
Technology
Age
Giants
Taken
Written
Advantage
Industrial
Tax
Codes
Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn't go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.
Charles Duhigg
Me
You
Long
Own
Pay
Promise
Some
Insurance
Go
Sell
Up
Selling
Goes
Just
Where
Swap
Agreement
Credit
Default
Belly
Bond
Basically
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