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“You know, we were very overconfident about these institutions and how well designed they are. Then it turned out that a lot of what makes American democracy work happened by, you know, it was really norms rather than laws or a general agreement. You know, that, for example, that the president publishes his tax returns. You know, that wasn't a law, it was just a habit. You know, maybe it's time to make it a law. So thinking carefully about what changes we can make to ensure genuine legitimacy and also to ensure people's feelings and belief in legitimacy, I think that's another important addition to the conversation.”

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Author:Anne Applebaum
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“Your action plan is your roadmap. It helps you get the wheels in motion, and it steers you toward long-term success: consistent, intentional practice. This is your path to creating and sustaining healthy habits that fuel you to keep going.”

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Book:Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters
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“Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearian " To be or not to be " we could favor " to become or not to become". By "becoming", we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go beyond the merely "being". We can retreat, then, from the imprisonment of a deadly routine, acquire an identity and develop our personality. ( "Man without Qualities" )”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie
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“I’ve certainly scolded myself for an hour or more blown on a flow of dog videos, family updates, shallow political expressions, and pleas for funds. Every one of those items has some value to me, just as each potato chip delivers some pleasure, some flavor. I savor them. But I lose count. And upon reflection I feel just horrible. But the thing is, snack foods are explicitly designed to make us behave this way. Food producers have studied, mastered, and tinkered with the ratios of salt, sugar, and fat to keep us coming back, even when the taste of much of the food is unremarkable. Facebook is designed to be habit-forming in just the same way.”

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Book:Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
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“When scientists analyze people who appear to have tremendous self-control, it turns out those individuals aren't all that different from those who are struggling. Instead, 'disciplined' people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control. In other words, they spend less time in tempting situations. The people with the best self-control are typically the ones who need to use it the least. It's easier to practice self-restraint when you don't have to use it very often.”

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Book:Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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“They were not struggling with themselves to play just one more round of a computer game or keep reading their Twitter feed. For them, sleep was not a battle of self-control. Instead, high “self-control” people performed better at the more habitual, automatic tasks than low “self-control” ones. High “self-controllers” were simply proficient at automating.”

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Book:Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
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“El sistema de recompensas cambia el sesgo con el que analizamos nuestra existencia en base a los niveles de energía que este maneja: cuando estamos cansados nos tornamos infinitamente más cortoplacistas”

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Book:Libertad para Gente Inteligente: De la cognición a la acción
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“Each moment of our days--our meals, our conversations with friends, our escapes, obsessions, romances, and distractions--is what we make of our lives. Our habits and rhythms of life are formative not only of who we are but how we know the world, including whether we know it to be a place where God is present or absent.”

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Book:Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World
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“Real change begins when you shift from asking ‘What should I do?’ to ‘Who am I becoming?’ The person you are becoming determines the choices you make, the habits you keep, and the life you ultimately live. Identity is not a destination — it is a daily decision.”

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Book:Alignment Is The Key: Mastering The 8 Timeless Principles of Enduring Success
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“According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is the acquisition of the virtues-which, you'll recall, we described above as noncognitive "dispositions" acquired through practices. So how does one acquire such virtues, such dispositions of desire? Through participation in concrete Christian practices like confession.”

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Book:Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
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“The ease with which certain words come to be musused is truly extraordinary: there are some who have gone so far as to give the name 'traditions' to popular habits, or even to conventions of quite recent origin, withouth importnace or real significance. As for ourselves, we refuse to give this name to what is only a more or less automatic respect for certain outward forms, which are sometimes nothing more than 'superstitions' in the etymological sense of the word. True tradition dewells in the outlook of a people or race or civilization, and it springs from causes that lie far deeper.”

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Book:EAST AND WEST
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“Always improving your habits and never reaching results is called “habiting.” I invented this term for all of us to rethink how we think about what gets us where and what keeps us stuck. Ever habiting is never inhabiting.”

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Book:Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
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“Me?" I said, stunned. "How do I have leverage?" Castle sighed. "You certainly are brave for your age, Ms. Ferrars, but I'm sorry to see your youth so inextricably tied to inexperience. I will try to put it plainly: you have superhuman strength, nearly invincible skin, a letal touch, only seventeen years to your name, and you have single-handedly felled the despot of this nation. And yet you doubt that you might be capable of intimidating the world?" I cringed. "Old habits, Castle," I said quietly. "Bad habits. You're right, of course. Of course you're right.”

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Book:Restore Me
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“We may be fascinated by the temptations of random encounters. Still, randomness can upset us by the pertinacity of our habits, actuating warning signals or panic buttons in our minds and preventing us from opening up to others. If we want to meet others and, even so, better understand how we are wired and what makes us tick, we must cultivate our tastes and tame the flavors of our lifestyle. ("I seek you")”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie
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“Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.”

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Book:On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
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“What do you say when I sneeze?"Anton repeated. "Bless you," Kana replied. "Right, but why do you say it?" Kana shrugged. "Sometimes in life, we do things simply because we have always done them,' explained Anton. "Perhaps there were once reasons, but we have forgotten them. A very long time ago, people believed that whenever a person sneezed, their soul exploded out through their mouths and into the air. They also believed that the devil was always lurking about and might snatch up that soul. So they said bless you, to stall the devil until the soul could shoot back down into the person's body." "That's nonsense," said Marin, throwing her hands in the air. "You're probably right," said Anton. "But you still say bless you. And until a moment ago, you didn't even know why.”

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Book:Nightfall
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“Power of habit – that sneaky little force that shapes our lives more than we care to admit. It's like having a secret agent working behind the scenes, silently nudging us toward success or dragging us into the abyss of procrastination. With determination & a sprinkle of discipline, we can tame even the wildest of habits. So, let's embark on this journey of self-improvement, armed with the knowledge that every small change we make today paves the way for a brighter tomorrow.”

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Author:Life is Positive
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“Es un sinsentido anhelar la completitud de cosas que requieren esfuerzo —hacer un curso, conseguir un ascenso en el trabajo, fundar tu propio negocio, etc.—, pero persiguiéndolo con métodos que no se alineen con la manera con la cual estamos diseñados”

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Book:Libertad para Gente Inteligente: De la cognición a la acción
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