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About Charles Duhigg
My name is Charles Duhigg, and I'm a reporter for The New York Times. I'm also the author of The Power of Habit, about the science of habit formation, as well as Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Productivity in Life and Business (which is available for sale on Amazon on March 8, 2016!)
I've worked at the Times since 2006. In 2013, I was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for a series about Apple named "The iEconomy". Before that, I contributed to NYT series about the 2008 financial crisis, how companies take advantage of the elderly and national violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. (For those series, I won the National Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors' Medal, the National Academies' reporting award and other recognitions.)
But let’s be honest, you aren’t visiting this page so I can brag about series and awards. (Unless you’re my mom. Hi mom!)
I’m also a native of New Mexico. I studied history at Yale and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. I now live in Brooklyn with my wife and two children and, before becoming a journalist, was a bike messenger in San Francisco for one terrifying day.
I would love to hear from you. I'm at charles@charlesduhigg.com.
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"We are what we repeatedly do," said Aristotle. "Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." On the most basic level, a habit is a simple neurological loop: there is a cue (my mouth feels gross), a routine (hello, Crest), and a reward (ahhh, minty fresh). Understanding this loop is the key to exercising regularly or becoming more productive at work or tapping into reserves of creativity. Marketers, too, are learning how to exploit these loops to boost sales; CEOs and coaches are using them to change how employees work and athletes compete. As this book shows, tweaking even one habit, as long as it's the right one, can have staggering effects.
In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes readers inside labs where brain scans record habits as they flourish and die; classrooms in which students learn to boost their willpower; and boardrooms where executives dream up products that tug on our deepest habitual urges. Full of compelling narratives that will appeal to fans of Michael Lewis, Jonah Lehrer, and Chip and Dan Heath, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: our most basic actions are not the product of well-considered decision making, but of habits we often do not realize exist. By harnessing this new science, we can transform our lives.
From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit comes a fascinating new book exploring the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing how you think--rather than what you think about--can transform your life.
Productivity, recent studies suggest, isn't always about driving ourselves harder, working faster and pushing ourselves toward greater "efficiency." Rather, real productivity relies on managing how we think, identify goals, construct teams and make decisions. The most productive people, companies and organizations don't merely act differently--they envision the world and their choices in profoundly different ways.
This book explores eight concepts that are critical to increasing productivity. It takes you into the cockpit of two passenger jets (one crashes) to understand the importance of constructing mental models--telling yourself stories about yourself in order to subconsciously focus on what really matters. It introduces us to basic training in the U.S. Marine Corps, where the internal locus of control is exploited to increase self-motivation. It chronicles the outbreak of Israel's Yom Kippur War to examine cognitive closure--a dangerous trap that stems from our natural desire to feel productive and check every last thing off our to-do lists, causing us to miss obvious risks and bigger opportunities. It uses a high-achieving public school in Cincinnati to illuminate the concept of disfluency, which holds that we learn faster and more deeply when we make the data harder to absorb. It shows how the principles of lean manufacturing--in which decision-making power is pushed to the lowest levels of the hierarchy--allowed the FBI to produce a software system that had eluded them for years. It explores how Disney made Frozen into a record success by encouraging tension among animation teams--a version of what biologists refer to as the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, which posits that nature is most creative when crises occur. With the combination of relentless curiosity, deep reporting and rich storytelling that defined The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg takes readers from neurology laboratories to Google's brainstorming sessions and illustrates how we can all increase productivity in our lives.
El best seller que permaneció tres años seguidos en la lista de más vendidos de The New York Times.
En El poder de los hábitos, el premiado periodista Charles Duhigg nos lleva al límite de los descubrimientos científicos que explican por qué existen los hábitos, cómo nos condicionan y cómo cambiarlos. Combinando información exhaustiva con descripciones fascinantes, Duhigg presenta una manera completamente nueva de entender la naturaleza humana y su potencial.
En esencia, El poder de los hábitos contiene un mensaje estimulante: la clave para hacer ejercicio con regularidad, perder peso, ser más productivo y conseguir el éxito consiste en entender el modo en que funcionan los hábitos. Como demuestra Duhigg, si somos capaces de sacar partido a este nuevo método, conseguiremos transformar nuestra vida laboral, social y personal.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Hay pocos libros que se conviertan en manuales esenciales de vida. Este es uno de ellos.»
Financial Times
«Un libro de primer nivel. Ofrece perfecto equilibrio entre seriedad intelectual y consejo práctico para romper con nuestros malos hábitos.»
The Economist
全球瘋行的習慣改造指南
讓你不再好習慣學不會、壞習慣改不掉
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本書2012年初一出版,就引起歐美主流媒體爭相推薦,暴紅登上《紐約時報》暢銷書榜第二名,並且熱賣至今,高踞排行榜不墜。作者也親自拍了精采的宣傳影片(https://youtu.be/el6kYx6qFmo),解說如何有效地診斷並改變習慣、進而改造生活與事業。
一流企業(寶僑、微軟、Google等)與世界級大學(哈佛、耶魯、劍橋、MIT等)都在研究的最熱門學問——「習慣的力量」
不論你想聰明理財、規律運動、成功減重、養育小孩、增加工作效率、革新企業組織
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「我們的一生,不過是無數習慣的總和。」——美國心理學之父威廉.詹姆斯
一名年輕女子走進實驗室,過去兩年她整個人改頭換面,不但不再抽菸,開始跑馬拉松,工作也一帆風順。神經學家發現,她的腦部活動模式已經完全改變。
寶僑公司的行銷人員觀察家庭主婦鋪床的過程,他們想知道新產品該如何廣告才能打動人心,之後發現一個細微到幾乎無法察覺的行為模式,於
Seit kurzem versuchen Hirnforscher, Verhaltenspsychologen und Soziologen gemeinsam neue Antworten auf eine uralte Frage zu finden: Warum tun wir eigentlich, was wir tun? Was genau prägt unsere Gewohnheiten? Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus der Forschung wie dem Alltag erzählt Charles Duhigg von der Macht der Routine und kommt dem Mechanismus, aber auch den dunklen Seiten der Gewohnheit auf die Spur. Er erklärt, warum einige Menschen es schaffen, über Nacht mit dem Rauchen aufzuhören (und andere nicht), weshalb das Geheimnis sportlicher Höchstleistung in antrainierten Automatismen liegt und wie sich die Anonymen Alkoholiker die Macht der Gewohnheit zunutze machen. Nicht zuletzt schildert er, wie Konzerne Millionen ausgeben, um unsere Angewohnheiten für ihre Zwecke zu manipulieren. Am Ende wird eines klar: Die Macht von Gewohnheiten prägt unser Leben weit mehr, als wir es ahnen.
वे यह पता लगाते हैं कि कुछ लोगों और कंपनियों को सालों की कोशिशों के बाद भी बदलाव के लिए संघर्ष क्यों करना पड़ता है, जबकि अन्य लोग बड़ी आसानी से रातोंरात बदलाव लाने में सफल हो जाते हैं। चार्ल्स उन प्रयोगशालाओं में भी जाते हैं, जहाँ न्यूरोसाइंटिस्ट इस बात का पता लगाते हैं कि आदतें कैसे काम करती हैं और उनका जन्म हमारे मस्तिष्क के किस हिस्से में होता है। चार्ल्स हमारे सामने यह राज़ भी उजागर करते हैं कि ओलंपिक तैराक माइकल फेल्प्स, स्टारबक्स के सीईओ हॉवर्ड शुल्ज और नागरिक अधिका
We all know people who seem capable of connecting with almost anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, the ones who ask deep questions but who also seem to hear what we are trying to say. What do they know about conversation that makes them so special? And what can they tell us about how communication really works?
Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand—some by intuition, some by hard-won experience—that there is a science to how human beings connect through words. They understand that whenever we speak, we're actually participating in three distinct conversations: What is this really about? How do we feel? And who are we? They know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation, and how to hear the complex emotions, subtle negotiations and hidden beliefs that color and inform everything we say. Our pasts, our values, our affiliations—our identities—shape every discussion we have, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work.
With his trademark insight and clarity, Duhigg shows readers how to recognize these three conversations—and teaches us the skills we need to navigate them more successfully. Communication, he argues, is a superpower. By bringing readers into jury deliberations and fraught CIA recruitments, into Netflix's company-wide conversations about equity and the writers' room of The Big Bang Theory, we learn why some people are able to make themselves heard—and to hear others—so clearly. We learn how to recognize and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. In the end, we learn a simple but powerful lesson: We can connect with anyone, as long as we understand how conversations work.
न्युयॉर्क टाईम्सचे अर्थविषयक पारितोषिकप्राप्त पत्रकार चार्ल्स डुहीग, हे त्यांच्या द पॉवर ऑफ हॅबिट या पुस्तकातून आपल्याला सवयींसंबधीच्या आश्चर्यकारक आणि चित्तथरारक वैज्ञानिक जगताची सफर घडवून आणतात.
काही व्यक्तींना आणि कंपन्यांना स्वतःला बदलण्यासाठी अनेक वर्षे का प्रयत्न करावे लागतात, का झगडावे लागते, तर त्याच वेळी काही मात्र, स्वतःमध्ये एका रात्रीत बदल घडवून आणतात हे कसे याचा ते शोध या पुस्तकामध्ये घेतात. आपल्या सवयी कसे कार्य करतात आणि त्यांचा आपल्या मेंदूमध्ये नेमका कोठे उगम होतो याचा शोध घेण्यासाठी, मेंदू वैज्ञनिकांचे चाललेले प्रयत्न जाणून घेण्यासाठी ते विविध प्रयोगशाळांना भेटी देतात आणि आ ॅलिंम्पिक जलतरणपटू मायकेल फेल्फ, स्टार
Duhigg zeigt in seiner Wissenschaft der Produktivität, wie jeder mehr erledigt bekommen kann, ohne großen Stress und mit geringen Anstrengungen – und so in allen Bereichen einfach smarter, schneller und besser werden kann.
En Más agudo, más rápido y mejor, elperiodista ganador del premio Pulitzer Charles Duhigg nos desvela los avances de la ciencia de la productividad de forma clara y práctica, y nos explica por qué es más importante controlar cómo pensamos que el propio contenido de nuestras reflexiones.
A partir deocho conceptos clave que van desde la motivación y el establecimiento de objetivos hasta la toma de decisiones, Charles Duhigg nos enseña en Más agudo, más rápido y mejor por qué algunas personas y empresas consiguen ser más productivas que otras, y cómo deberíamos actuar para mejorar y conseguir nuestros objetivos con menos estrés y esfuerzo. En definitiva, ser más agudos, más rápidos y mejores en todo lo que hacemos.
Fundamentado en los últimos descubrimientos en neurociencia, psicología y psicoeconomía, así como en las experiencias vividas por profesionales de diversos ámbitos como agentes del FBI, pilotos comerciales, directores generales, y altos mandos del ejército, este libro constituye la herramienta perfecta para que nuestra vida laboral y personal sea mucho más fructífera y agradable.
«La productividad tiene que ver sobre todo con elegir ciertas opciones de ciertas maneras. El modo en que decidimos vernos a nosotros mismos y encuadrar las decisiones cotidianas, las historias que nos contamos y los objetivos fáciles que ignoramos, el sentimiento de comunidad que inculcamos en nuestros compañeros de equipo y la cultura creativa que establecemos como líderes, todo esto es lo que diferencia a las personas simplemente ocupadas de las realmente productivas.»
Charles Duhigg
Reseñas:
«Una lectura imprescindible para todos los que deseen ser más productivos (y de forma más creativa).»
Jim Collins, autor de Empresas que sobresalen
«Charles Duhigg es un buen narrador que posee una singular habilidad para combinar ciencia social, reportajes detallados y anécdotas muy entretenidas.»
The Economist
«Más agudo, más rápido y mejor ofrece grandes lecciones. Duhigg es un excelente narrador y un maestro cuyas palabras atrapan al lector.»
The Financial Times