9. Power of Habit Chapter 8

 - A social movement usually needs three parts: starting because of social habits of friendship, growing because of the habits of a community, and it endures because leaders give participants new habits. 

- Before Rosa Parks, many other black passengers had been put in jail for refusing to give up their seats. None of them started a boycott or protests.

- Parks was involved in a lot of her community and was deeply respected. Her arrest sparked social habits (friendship habits) and ignited the initial protest. 

- Weak tie acquaintances are important because they let us know information we might not have gotten to know otherwise. 

- In adult life, peer pressure is how businesses get done and communities self organize. 

- Doug McAdam tried to figure out why some people participated in Freedom Summer and others didn't, when everyone knew the risks of it. His hypothesis that those more self centered stayed home was wrong, because his analysis showed that both self centered and selfless people went. His other hypothesis that married people, or people in relationships didn't go was also incorrect. He found that people were more likely to go if they had signed up in a group, or were part of a community where they couldn't back out without losing their social standing. 

- A religious community was formed by making people build social connections to each other and having them feel the need to habitually go meet the people in their group every week. 

- MLK was able to ask people to control their violence