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    Power Series: The Power of Habit, The Road to Character, Awaken the Giant Within, Mindset, The Obstacle is The Way | Summary Pack
    Power Series: The Power of Habit, The Road to Character, Awaken the Giant Within, Mindset, The Obstacle is The Way | Summary Pack
    Power Series: The Power of Habit, The Road to Character, Awaken the Giant Within, Mindset, The Obstacle is The Way | Summary Pack
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    Power Series: The Power of Habit, The Road to Character, Awaken the Giant Within, Mindset, The Obstacle is The Way | Summary Pack

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    This Power Series Summary Pack includes the following five (5) book summaries.

    1) CHARLES DUHIGG’S THE POWER OF HABIT: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Summary

    OVER 60 WEEKS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST

    At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. As Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.

    2) DAVID BROOKS’ THE ROAD TO CHARACTER Summary

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST.

    Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth.

    3) TONY ROBBINS’ AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny Summary

    Anthony Robbins, the nation's leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life. Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life, and harness the forces that shape your destiny.

    4 ) RYAN HOLIDAY’S THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph Summary

    Ryan Holiday shows us how some of the most successful people in history—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—have applied stoicism to overcome difficult or even impossible situations. Their embrace of these principles ultimately mattered more than their natural intelligence, talents, or luck.

    5 } CAROL DWECK’S MINDSET: The New Psychology of Success Summary

    Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success—but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success.

    Available in a variety of formats, these summaries are aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour all the pages. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual books have to offer. The summaries are not intended to be used without reference to the original book(s).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnt Hive Media
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781310364709
    Power Series: The Power of Habit, The Road to Character, Awaken the Giant Within, Mindset, The Obstacle is The Way | Summary Pack
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      Power Series - Ant Hive Media

      The Power of Habit

      Why We Do What We Do

      in Life and Business

      Summary by Ant Hive Media

      Please Note

      This is a Summary of the original book. Ant Hive Media reads every chapter, extracts the understanding and leaves you with a new perspective and time to spare. We do the work so you can understand the book in minutes, not hours.

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      Copyright © 2016 by Ant Hive Media.

      All rights reserved worldwide. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the prior written consent of the publisher

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      OVERVIEW

      IMPORTANT PEOPLE

      CORE CONCEPTS

      ANALYSIS OF CORE CONCEPTS

      CORE CONCEPT NO.1

      HABITS FORM AUTOMATICALLY

      CORE CONCEPT NO.2

      YOU’RE BEING MANIPULATED

      CORE CONCEPT NO.3

      CHANGING HABITS SUCCESSFULLY

      CORE CONCEPT NO.4

      MIND YOUR MAJOR HABITS

      CORE CONCEPT NO.5

      WILLPOWER IS LEARNABLE

      CORE CONCEPT NO.6

      DETRIMENTAL HABITS

      CORE CONCEPT NO.7

      MANIPULATING OTHERS HABITS

      CORE CONCEPT NO.8

      SOCIETY PRESSURE

      CORE CONCEPT NO.9

      ADDICTION

      AUTHORS STYLE

      PERSPECTIVE

      OVERVIEW

      Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit is a comprehensive analysis of different cases showing the impact habits have on everyday life. It uses examples of companies, corporations and individuals to describe formation of habits, how to alter them, their use in making business profitable, and the damage poor habits can cause.

      Examination of people with odd habits helps to understand how habits form inside the brain. The basal ganglia stores the habit, composed of a loop made of three sections. The sections stimulate the habit, its execution, and a reward which reminds the brain to store the habit for future use. Keeping the stimulation and reward parts can help change a habit, though habits cannot be totally erased.

      Organizations use this knowledge to stimulate and monitor customer habits so as to sell more products. Firms also use it to increase efficiency of employees, make the workplace better, or add extra workers to strengthen a system.

      Though habits seem to interfere with free will, altering them is possible and life changing.

      IMPORTANT PEOPLE

      Charles Duhigg:

      Author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and New York Times investigative journalist. He was inspired by an America army major who managed to stop constant riots in an Iraqi city by identifying and stopping a habit loop in the rioters.

      Eugene Pauly

      His brain was studied after being damaged by viral encephalitis. He could develop and create habits but couldn’t keep memories for longer than one minute.

      Drake Stimson

      Proctor and Gamble marketing officer mandated to market ‘Fabreze,’ the spray for eliminating odor.

      Tony Dungy

      Coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who changed the habits of the serial losing team. With his strategies, the team ultimately improved and won the Super Bowl, though he was later sacked.

      Paul O’Neill

      Ex government administrator who integrated a safety culture in Aluminum Company of America.

      Andrew Pole

      Statistician who created an analysis program for purchase history at Target, to identify if consumers are pregnant so as to mail them coupons.

      E.D. Nixon

      Leader of the NAACP in Montgomery, Alabama. He posted bail for Rosa Parks in 1955, and brought in Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the bus boycotts in Montgomery.

      Rick Warren

      Started Saddleback Church, one of the biggest churches in the world, founded on the premise that church growth must be driven by converting groups instead of individuals.

      Angie Bachmann

      Gambling addict and stay-at-home mum who got her family into debt. Angie sued the casino for manipulating her addiction and giving her free presents, a case she lost at the Supreme Court.

      CORE CONCEPTS

      1. Habit formation happens involuntarily in the brain’s basal ganglia in order to boost efficiency. Creating a habit needs a stimulus, a routine action, and a reward to strengthen the habit.

      2. Marketers manipulate consumers to buy products by preying on their desire for a reward. They stimulate the routine that leads to the reward.

      3. Changing a habit successfully requires the cue and the reward to stay unchanged, but altering the routine. Believing that the habit can be changed is also important.

      4. Specific habits are so critical to daily life that altering them automatically changes many other habits. Change of one habit may not lead to change in others, but the momentum created makes the process easier.

      5. Willpower is critical and learnable. However, it can be weakened by exhaustion and reinforced by having precise contingency plans.

      6. Habits, not reasonable choice, have more impact on decisions in a group, thus enhancing cooperation between rival groups. Detrimental habits arise when a section of the company bears too much weight, leading to accidents and poor communication. This can be fixed when there’s an organizational emergency.

      7. Analyzing customers involves understanding which habits to prey on, without the consumers knowing that the marketers are manipulating them.

      8. Pressure within society associated with group habits show how poor social links can create unity of purpose.

      9. In certain cases, like addiction, habits seem stronger than free will, but the first step is to acknowledge the habit.

      ANALYSIS OF CORE CONCEPTS

      Core Concept No.1
      Habits Form Automatically

      Habit formation happens involuntarily in the brain’s basal ganglia in order to boost efficiency. Creating a habit needs a stimulus, a routine action, and a reward to strengthen the habit.

      Analysis

      Although neurology of forming habits is not deeply discussed, the case studies highlighted are based on the habit loop. Habit development is automatic and is either complex or simple. Every chapter contains a drawing depicting this loop as a cycle that repeats itself. This is an important factor in the book, though there is no clarification in the case studies as to whether something is a habit or simply a one-off event.

      Habits are persistent changes in a person’s neurology, affecting their conscious and more so their unconscious actions. It is heartening to know that small behavioral changes can create permanent changes in habit, thus affecting the root cause of your ability to exercise regularly or stick to a diet. Many experts in the book say habits contribute to human as well as animal behavior.

      Since a person barely recognizes a habit as the driver of their behavior, the habit loop has become commonplace in the sociology, marketing, business management, and advertising sectors. Various brands had used it before WWI, though its understanding had been limited prior to the release of this book.

      It is unclear whether the people in the book were aware of the habit loop and how they were utilizing its effects. On the other hand, readers can still imagine the way the subjects formed

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