20 published lessons with this tag.
Recurring structures appear at every scale of your experience — in individual thoughts, daily habits, quarterly cycles, and life-long trajectories. The same pattern that shapes a single conversation shapes a career.
When the same structure appears three or more times, treat it as a pattern worth naming — not a coincidence to dismiss.
An unnamed pattern is invisible — naming it makes it manipulable.
Recognizing a pattern gives you the choice to follow or break it.
The same structure often repeats in your work relationships health and thinking.
Every pattern has a trigger — identifying the trigger is the key to changing the pattern.
Do not only look for patterns to fix — also identify and protect patterns that serve you.
Regularly recording observations about recurring events builds pattern recognition skill.
Two things happening together does not mean one causes the other.
Patterns in how your patterns form and dissolve — meta-patterns — are especially valuable.
Many personal patterns follow weekly, monthly, or seasonal cycles that become invisible when you only think in linear time.
Recurring dynamics in relationships reveal your relational templates.
Your mental and physical energy follows predictable patterns you can map and leverage.
The specific ways you avoid or procrastinate follow consistent patterns.
Your past successes share common elements that you can deliberately replicate.
Deliberately breaking a pattern at the trigger point creates space for new behavior.
Reviewing your captured notes over time reveals patterns you did not see in the moment.
Not every recurring event is meaningful — some repetitions are coincidental.
Small patterns repeated daily become the dominant forces in your life.
Pattern recognition is not a fixed talent. It is a perceptual skill that improves with deliberate practice — and every lesson in this phase has been training it.