[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":53},["ShallowReactive",2],{"mental-model-habits-over-results-en":3},{"title":4,"description":5,"summary":6,"sections":7,"visual":28,"related":35,"sources":48},"Habits over Results","Build repeatable training behaviours that support progress, while using results as feedback and avoiding rigid routines that no longer serve your goals.","Results vary from day to day. A useful habit makes a good action easier to repeat, then lets evidence decide whether that action still helps.",[8,14,20],{"heading":9,"kind":10,"paragraphs":11},"What can you repeat after a bad session?","idea",[12,13],"The round went badly. You can still arrive prepared next time, pick a useful question and review what happened. Habits over results puts value on repeatable actions instead of demanding a good score before you acknowledge good work. Habit research studies how behaviour becomes more automatic in a stable context. Lally and colleagues followed everyday behaviours over time; their work does not give everyone a fixed number of days to build a habit.","A result is still useful information. The mistake is demanding a good result before allowing yourself to value a good action. You can arrive prepared, choose a learning goal and review a round even when performance is poor. Those behaviours create opportunities to learn. Whether they improve the skill must still be checked, so a routine is never beyond revision.",{"heading":15,"kind":16,"paragraphs":17},"Use a cue that already exists","practice",[18,19],"A grappler wants to stop attending class without a focus. They attach one small action to an existing cue: after changing clothes, write the position they want to investigate. After the final round, add one observation about that position. The routine does not require an elaborate journal or a successful round. It provides a beginning and an ending for deliberate attention.","Choose a behaviour that is within your control and fits the real schedule. Plan a smaller version for busy sessions: one clear sentence may be enough. Avoid making a missed day into evidence that the whole approach failed. Resume at the next suitable cue and examine whether the obstacle was time, unclear purpose or a routine that asked too much.",{"heading":21,"kind":22,"paragraphs":23},"Review the habit and the outcome separately","experiment",[24,25,26,27],"For several weeks, track whether you performed the chosen behaviour and what it made possible. Did naming a position lead to relevant practice? Did a short observation help you ask a better question? Keep the record simple enough to maintain. At a planned review, compare performance in that position under similar conditions rather than relying only on general feelings.","If the habit happens reliably but the practice remains unfocused, change the behaviour. Perhaps you need a question about a cue rather than a broad position label. If the routine consumes the session, reduce it. Consistency is valuable when it repeatedly supports something worthwhile. Repeating an ineffective process more faithfully is not the same as developing skill.","Kaizen is a process of repeated improvement. Habits supply stable actions that can support that process. Compounding describes effects that build on previous gains, while resulting fallacy warns against judging decisions through one outcome. These concepts reinforce each other without making the same claim.","A habit should also accommodate recovery, work and family responsibilities. A rigid attendance streak can push you toward poor choices. Preserve the useful behaviour at an appropriate scale and let the goal guide the routine. Results tell you where to look; habits help ensure you return often enough to investigate.",{"description":29,"labels":30},"A familiar cue leads to a small behaviour, a review and another opportunity to repeat or adjust it.",[31,32,33,34],"Cue","Useful action","Review","Repeat or adjust",[36,39,42,45],{"id":37,"reason":38},"kaizen","A repeatable action gives a small improvement cycle somewhere to start.",{"id":40,"reason":41},"compounding","Useful actions can create conditions that support further learning.",{"id":43,"reason":44},"resulting-fallacy","One result does not tell you whether the process was sound.",{"id":46,"reason":47},"10-minute-rule","Make the first action small enough to begin.",[49],{"title":50,"url":51,"note":52},"How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1002\u002Fejsp.674","Lally and colleagues' study of automaticity in repeated everyday behaviour; no universal habit duration.",1791220424337]