Michael would have, at most, nine to twelve months to live. Making this all the more heart-wrenching was the fact that Michael and his wife had just welcomed their first children, twin girls, into the world that year.
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It is harder to motivate a patient who is feeling depressed to go and start an exercise program; someone who is overstressed at work and miserable in their personal life may not see the point of early cancer screening or monitoring their blood glucose levels.
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Incredible as it is, however, our circulatory system is far from perfect—in fact, it is almost perfectly designed to generate atherosclerotic disease, just in the course of daily living.
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When we embrace negotiating’s transformative possibilities, we learn how to get what we want and how to move others to a better place. Negotiation is the heart of collaboration.
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It’s like, a regular TV looks fine if that’s all you’ve ever seen. But once you see a 4K screen, you realize that your old cathode-ray tube TV was not very clear after all.
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When you realize you have a secret power, how can you resist wielding it? Whenever you possibly can?!
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Habit stacking is a special form of an implementation intention. Rather than pairing your new habit with a particular time and location, you pair it with a current habit.
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The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual. The reward of being accepted is often greater than the reward of winning an argument, looking smart, or finding truth.
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People often choose products not because of what they are, but because of where they are.
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The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
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We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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To quiet the voices in your head, make your sole and all-encompassing focus the other person and what they have to say.
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The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader.
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I was learning something about myself. Not just that I was brave. But I was resilient. I was careful. Fear was something I could control.
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The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do. Increase the friction until you don’t even have the option to act.
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Just to give you a sense of how exclusive this club is, for every supercentenarian in the world at this writing, there are about nine billionaires.
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When I walk into a room everything is in its right place. Because I do this every day in every room, stuff always stays in good shape. . . . People think I work hard but I’m actually really lazy. I’m just proactively lazy.
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The best strategy to target cancer is likely by targeting multiple vulnerabilities of the disease at one time, or in sequence.
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The clear point here is that people operating with incomplete information appear crazy to those who have different information. Your job when faced with someone like this in a negotiation is to discover what they do not know and supply that information.
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If we want to have any hope of avoiding conflict in space, or due to space, we need to act to constrain human nature and shape the future for peace.
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Exercise helps keep the brain vasculature healthy, and it may also help preserve brain volume.
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Notice that you can’t buy anything for $2, but you can buy a million things for $1.99. How does a cent change anything? It doesn’t. But it makes a difference every time. We just like $1.99 more than $2.00 even if we know it’s a trick.
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When I wanted to start a push-up habit, my habit stack was “When I take a break for lunch, I will do ten push-ups.” At first glance, this sounded reasonable. But soon, I realized the trigger was unclear.
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