the power of habit by charles duhigg epub

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... Page Copyright Dedication PROLOGUE The Habit Cure PART ONE The Habits of Individuals 1. THE HABIT LOOP How Habits Work 2. THE CRAVING BRAIN How to Create New Habits 3. THE GOLDEN RULE OF HABIT CHANGE Why Transformation ... befuddled by the fact that someone could change the television channel by pointing a black notes and http://www.thepowerofhabit.com.) It focuses on habits as they are technically defined: the choices ... Occurs PART TWO The Habits of Successful Organizations 4. KEYSTONE HABITS, OR THE BALLAD OF PAUL O’NEILL Which Habits Matter Most 5. STARBUCKS AND THE HABIT OF SUCCESS When Willpower Becomes Automatic was eld- erly, a shade over six feet tall, and neatly dressed in a blue button- down shirt. 1.1 His thick white hair would have in- spired envy at any fiftieth high school re- uni- on. Ar- th- rit- As...

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... have the worst possible timing, investing at the peak of the stock market each year. Another investor starts later but is the world ’ s luckiest investor, buying at the absolute bottom of the ... Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, calls credit cards “ the crack cocaine of the fi nancial world. They start out as a no - fee way to get instant gratifi cation, but the next ... sentences. Another reason for saving is quite positive: Most of us enjoy the extra comfort and the feeling of accomplishment that comes with both the process of saving and with the results...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... they center their thinking on enjoying the benefi ts of achieving their goals, most savers and most slim people take pleasure in the process of saving and the process of keeping trim. They do not ... think in terms of deprivation; they think in terms of making good progress toward achieving their goal. As they make progress toward their goal, they have the fun and satis- faction of achievement. ... and tall. They were constructed that way to mini- mize property taxes, which were based on the width of a house. Consider another architectural example, the invention of the mansard roof in France....

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... broadly diversifi ed bond fund. The U.S. Treasury issues large amounts of bonds. These issues are considered the safest of all and these bonds are the one type of security where diversifi cation ... at the end of the period. While a total of exactly $ 5,000 is invested in both cases, the investor in the volatile market ends up with $ 6,048 — a nice return of $ 1,048 — even though the ... averaging because the strategy is not optimal if the mar- ket does go straight up. (You would have been better off putting all $ 5,000 into the market at the beginning of the period.) But it...

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... something. And then do something else. The more you do, the merrier he will be. Mr. Market is expensive and the cost of transac- tions is the small part of the total cost. The large part of the total ... dur- ing the fourth quarter of 1999 and the fi rst quarter of 2000 — just at the top of the market — than ever before. And most of the money that went into the market was directed to the high ... funds — the stocks that turned out to be the most overpriced and then declined the most during the subsequent bear market. And more money went out of the market during the third quarter of 2002...

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... the market sometimes makes mistakes — often egregious ones such as the overvaluation of high - tech and Internet stocks at the turn of the century. But many of the pundits who predicted the ... distressed by losses than they are delighted by gains. This leads people to discard their winners if they need cash and hold onto their losers because they don ’ t want to recognize or admit that they ... around. The overarching principle is that the more you pay the provider of the fi nancial service, the less there will be for you. 5. Diversifi cation reduces anxiety. Diversifi cation reduces the...

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... PM 128 * These are the rules as of 2009; the dollar limits may well be raised in subsequent years. wish. Just make sure you are taking full advantage of at least one of these plans. They not ... 1:33:40 PM 122 The Elements of Investing now available that track total stock market indexes in the United States and in the world. The table on the opposite page shows the menu of ETFs that ... Moreover, these plans allow the earnings and gains from these savings plans to compound over time tax free. Here we describe the details of these tax-advantaged plans. This section is, by necessity,...

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... member of the President ’ s Council of Economic Advisers, Dean of the Yale School of Management, Chair of Princeton ’ s Economics Depart- ment, and as a director of major corporations. CHARLES ... author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street Bestselling author of Winning the Loser’s Game THE ELEMENTS OF INVESTING M M A A LKI E E L L E E LLI S S THE ELEMENTS OF INVESTING In his classic book The ... 2:07:26 PM 143 ABOUT THE AUTHORS BURTON G. MALKIEL Burton G. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman ’ s Professor of Economics at Princeton University and the author of the bestselling, A...

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... element of the vector usually represents a word (or a group of words) of the document collection, i.e. the size of the vector is defined by the number of words (or groups of words) of the complete ... order to reduce the size of the dictionary and thus the dimensionality of the descrip- tion of documents within the collection, the set of words describing the documents can be reduced by filtering ... from the number of clusters is the silhouette coefficient SC(P) (cf. [KR90]). The main idea of the coef- ficient is to find out the location of a document in the space with respect to the cluster of...

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... in![Footnote: Instead of naming the hotels (= mansions) of the great noblemen, Julia names the hotels (= inns) of the time. She thus shows where the countess had studied the aristocracy.] COUN. ... but for the first time only in 1682. It gives us a good picture of the provincial thoughts, manners, and habits of those days. PERSONS REPRESENTED THE COUNT, son to the COUNTESS. THE VISCOUNT, ... tax-gatherer are but poor lovers for a great countess like you. COUN. They are men whom one treats kindly in the country, in order to make use of when the need arises. They serve to fill up the...

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... two other women in the group named Cheryl. Two of the three men named Phil. Of the men, only Phil named Cheryl. In other words, in this instance, the women evaluated the contribution of another woman ... in how sensitive they are to the social dynamics of language – in other words, to the subtle nuances of what others say to them. Men tend to be sensitive to the power dy- namics of interaction, ... to the gen- eral public the idea of female and male styles of com- munication. The material in this article is drawn from Talking from 9 to 5 (Avon Books, 1995). The Power of Talk: The head of...

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