Charles Duhigg

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Journalist · United States Of America · Male

Charles Duhigg (born 1974) is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He is a reporter for The New York Times and the author of two books on habits and productivity. 2Early life Charles Duhigg was born in 1974 in New Mexico. He graduated from Yale University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School. 2Career Duhigg was a staff writer of The Los Angeles Times. Since 2006, he has been a reporter at The New York Times, Duhigg was one of a team of New York Times reporters who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of 10 articles about the business practices of Apple and other technology companies. Duhigg wrote or co-wrote the series Toxic Waters, Golden Opportunities, and was part of the team that wrote The Reckoning. Duhigg's book about the science of habit formation, titled The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, was published by Random House on February 28, 2012. An extract was published in New York Times entitled "How Companies Learn Your Secrets." The Power of Habit spent over 60 weeks on The New York Times's bestseller lists. He is also the author of Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business, which was released on March 8, 201

From “Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business”

“Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.”

From “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business”

“Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not.… Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.”

“Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.”