The Power of Habits

Habits have been forming and transforming our society from the first day we started to incorporate them in our everyday behavior. This led to a Charles Duhigg a mexico native working as a reporter for the New York Times to realize that this thing we call Habits have influenced us to make some decisions in the past that have benefited the modern world. Charles Duhigg is the author of New York Times bestseller The Power of Habit. He points out that why we do what we do in life and business, a book exploring the genesis of habits, how they can be transformed , and how they contributed to the success of figures such as Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps and civil rights leader Martin Luther King. During the reading, the habits of man, he stated that “In adult life, it’s how business gets done and communities self organize,” at first I couldn’t understand exactly what it meant but after reading through the entire article and learning about weak ties which are people you may know through another friend and how it affected the Civil Rights movement when Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up and stand in the bus. This sparked a sense of identity in the entire community to the point where people who did not even know Rosa Parks were forced to stand up for her during this time in history. That is connected to how business gets done when you are in the adult world; by forcing people out of their comfort zone to stand up for what they wanted.