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 believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

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.

Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

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