Quotes from Charles Duhigg

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.