Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior.

Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.