My kid is yelling “NONONONONO”, I should feel [EMOTION] and say [UTTERANCE]
My boss is coming this way, I should sit [POSTURE] and be doing [ACTIVITY]
The way I hold my body when I type, drive, walk, run, stand, &c.
The appropriate volume for speech
The procedure for tying shoes
The way we cook and eat certain foods: specifically foods like eggs where there are plenty of options, and plenty of local variation, but we still routinely default to over-medium or whatever
… I sense this list could get very long if allowed. Basically every skill or pattern we have acquired since birth is comprised of at least one habit. If you can do a thing without having to think it out step-by-step, it’s a habit (or a series of consecutive habits) triggered by some context(s). If you have a cached default established well enough that it’s useful, that’s a habit. Are any of the examples I or others have listed like what you were looking for? Which items seem to more centrally match your needs?
Are any of the examples I or others have listed like what you were looking for?
Yes, most are. Thank you!
Which items seem to more centrally match your needs?
I don’t know if “volume of speech” counts as a habit, but that’s a good example. I suppose most people never fully asked themselves what volume of speech was optimal, yet that’s something they act on regularly.
Other examples that are central to what I was asking: use of toilets, showering, tying shoelaces, posture.
The most specific ones are the most useful.
I hadn’t thought about verbal and mental habits, but those seem like really important categories too!
Habits of thought that manifest as a deep gut feeling…
“The narrator in my mind is always right, especially when it tells me how wrong or bad I am”
“My mind is confined to my brain”
“My body is bounded entirely and always by my skin”
Reactions [1] to common social situations…
My kid is yelling “NONONONONO”, I should feel [EMOTION] and say [UTTERANCE]
My boss is coming this way, I should sit [POSTURE] and be doing [ACTIVITY]
The way I hold my body when I type, drive, walk, run, stand, &c.
The appropriate volume for speech
The procedure for tying shoes
The way we cook and eat certain foods: specifically foods like eggs where there are plenty of options, and plenty of local variation, but we still routinely default to over-medium or whatever
… I sense this list could get very long if allowed. Basically every skill or pattern we have acquired since birth is comprised of at least one habit. If you can do a thing without having to think it out step-by-step, it’s a habit (or a series of consecutive habits) triggered by some context(s). If you have a cached default established well enough that it’s useful, that’s a habit. Are any of the examples I or others have listed like what you were looking for? Which items seem to more centrally match your needs?
To clarify: Any behavior that looks like a “reaction” from the inside is a habit. Non-habitual actions are “response”s.
Yes, most are. Thank you!
I don’t know if “volume of speech” counts as a habit, but that’s a good example. I suppose most people never fully asked themselves what volume of speech was optimal, yet that’s something they act on regularly.
Other examples that are central to what I was asking: use of toilets, showering, tying shoelaces, posture.
The most specific ones are the most useful.
I hadn’t thought about verbal and mental habits, but those seem like really important categories too!