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Typically, People Who Exercise Start Eating Better And Becoming More Productive At Work. They Smoke Less And Show More Patience With Colleagues And Family. They Use Their Credit Cards Less Frequently And Say They Feel Less Stressed. It's Not Completely Clear Why. But For Many People, Exercise Is A Keystone Habit That Triggers Widespread Change.

Self-discipline Has A Bigger Effect On Academic Performance Than Does Intellectual Talent.

Habits Are Powerful, But Delicate. They Can Emerge Outside Our Consciousness, Or Can Be Deliberately Designed. They Often Occur Without Our Permission, But Can Be Reshaped By Fiddling With Their Parts. They Shape Our Lives Far More Than We Realize—they Are So Strong, In Fact, That They Cause Our Brains To Cling To Them At The Exclusion Of All Else, Including Common Sense.

Research Suggests That Investment Bankers Are More Prone To Commit Fraud When They Feel The Competitor At Their Heels.

When People Have A Willpower Failure, It's Because They Haven't Anticipated A Situation That's Going To Come Along.