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Travis Leach is a Starbucks employee who credits his job with turning his life around. He had a difficult childhood: his parents were heroin addicts, and both died when he was a teenager. Unable to cope with the stresses of everyday life, he got and lost a series of low-wage jobs until he landed at Starbucks—where the employee training program taught him key habits, like willpower and social skills. Duhigg uses Leach’s life story to illustrate the importance of willpower, as well as how organizations can spread good habits throughout their structures.
Travis Leach Quotes in The Power of Habit
The The Power of Habit quotes below are all either spoken by Travis Leach or refer to Travis Leach . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Starbucks has taught him how to live, how to focus, how to get to work on time, and how to master his emotions. Most crucially, it has taught him willpower.
“Starbucks is the most important thing that has ever happened to me,” he told me. “I owe everything to this company.”
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Travis Leach Quotes in The Power of Habit
The The Power of Habit quotes below are all either spoken by Travis Leach or refer to Travis Leach . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5
Quotes
Starbucks has taught him how to live, how to focus, how to get to work on time, and how to master his emotions. Most crucially, it has taught him willpower.
“Starbucks is the most important thing that has ever happened to me,” he told me. “I owe everything to this company.”
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Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
