Automatic Thinking

Have you missed a turn because you were automatic in following a familiar route, when you meant to do something different?

The vast majority of our decisions and resulting actions occur automatically.

Allowing instinctive reactions and doing what is easy or familiar, is mostly what we do.

We couldn’t survive if we had to attend to the thousands of micro-decisions we make in a day, so having a functioning “automatic mode” is vital.

But as generations of parents and teachers have recognized, we can better our lives by strategically shaping our habits through conscious effort. Good habits facilitate success, and bad habits inhibit success.