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.

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

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

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit -- unless you find new routines -- the pattern will unfold automatically.

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.