Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.
When we start a new task, or confront an unpleasant chore, we should take a moment to ask ourselves “why.
The same process that makes AA so effective—the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe—happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold…. In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.
Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.
I think I’m smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn’t a lot I could point to and say, that’s why I’m special.
When people have a willpower failure, it’s because they haven’t anticipated a situation that’s going to come along.
Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.
Prosecutors say it would be next to impossible to get one teen to testify in court that another had slipped him or her a copied disc at lunchtime. And besides, isn’t sharing music a time-honored part of teen friendship?
A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It’s good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they’re reinforcing patterns.
The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps – the formula – is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.
Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.
Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.
You’re much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.
Even though it’s hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what’s on the radio.
Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.