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How can college students who want to improve their academic performance best develop and/or change their habits to achieve success? Using Duhigg’s language and ideas about the habit loop to make your case.
Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg describes how keystone habits shape our institutional behaviors and can transform our collective or social endeavors.
If you were advising an institution or group such as a church, a sports team, a club, a group of political protesters, a political campaign, or another group organization, what keystone habit would you advise it to adopt in order that it might better achieve its goals?
choose a specific group; identify a specific goal it wants to achieve and is having some difficulty achieving; identify a specific keystone habit it might implement that would have the cascading beneficial effects that Duhigg discusses; discuss what those benefits are and how they are linked to organizational goals.
In chapter 9, “The Neurology of Free Will: Are We Responsible for Our Habits?” from The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg presents the controversy over the extent to which people are personally responsible for their own habitual behavior and its consequences.
Do you think people should be held accountable for their habitual behaviors and their consequences? Focus on the example of Angie Bachmann from the chapter, but add others from your research.
