If You Believe You Can

As People Strengthened Their Willpower Muscles In One Part Of Their Lives—in The Gym, Or A Money Management Program—that Strength Spilled Over Into What They Ate Or How Hard They Worked. Once Willpower Became Stronger, It Touched Everything.

What We Know From Lab Studies Is That It's Never Too Late To Break A Habit. Habits Are Malleable Throughout Your Entire Life. But We Also Know That The Best Way To Change A Habit Is To Understand Its Structure - That Once You Tell People About The Cue And The Reward And You Force Them To Recognize What Those Factors Are In A Behavior, It Becomes Much, Much Easier To Change.

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It Is Facile To Imply That Smoking, Alcoholism, Overeating, Or Other Ingrained Patters Can Be Upended Without Real Effort. Genuine Change Requires Work And Self-understanding Of The Cravings Driving Behaviours.

The Golden Rule Of Habit Change: You Can't Extinguish A Bad Habit, You Can Only Change It.