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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new things.

~Charles Duhigg

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Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When people go on low-carb diets, they start to almost subconsciously experience distress from eating carbohydrates.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Almost Because Brain Carbohydrates Diets Distress Eating Enjoy Essentially Experience Fullness Give Go Our People Pleasure Programmed Rush Sense Start Subconsciously Us

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Older Americans are perfect telemarketing customers, analysts say, because they are often at home, rely on delivery services, and are lonely for the companionship that telephone callers provide.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: American Analyst Because Companionship Customers Delivery Home Lonely Often Older Perfect Provide Rely Say Services Telephone

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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

~Charles Duhigg

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If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Allow Because Deny Done Every Facebook Five Hour Ignore Internet Just Look Minutes Need People Schedule Start Surf Surfing Themselves Time Tried Try Tweets Urge Web You Your Yourself

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Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued almost immediately.

~Charles Duhigg

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It almost goes without saying that when you are a startup, one of the first things you do is you start setting aside money to defend yourself from patent lawsuits, because any successful company, even moderately successful, is going to get hit by a patent lawsuit from someone who's just trying to look for a payout.

~Charles Duhigg

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Often in companies, you'll see tensions between sales and marketing. Sales people will want to give discounts to clients because they often get paid a commission based on how much they sell. So they're always pushing to give discounts because that will increase sales. Marketing, however, is judged by overall profitability.

~Charles Duhigg

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The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Basic Because Brain Decision Decision Making Discovery Emerges Focus Fully Habit Hard Important Loop Making Other Participating Reveals Stops Tasks Truth Working

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While markets are supposed to ensure transparency by showing orders to everyone simultaneously, flash orders are currently allowed because of a loophole in securities regulations that allows for immediate trades.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Allowed Because Currently Ensure Everyone Flash Immediate Loophole Markets Orders Regulations Securities Showing Simultaneously Supposed Trades Transparency While

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