What is better for your marriage and business? Predictability or Novelty? Having the resources to apply at appropriate times is what a master does.
- Systems Processes-cutting up your big chunks into little steps or progressions.
- Using verbs as nouns (nominalizations-or vice versa). A football program, or to program the running scheme?
- Pattern Interrupts-disrupting the normal, the system when it does not work.
- Binary behavior (either or). Limiting or expanding choice.
- Novelty
- Requisite Variety-Simply put, that in order to deal properly with the diversity of problems the world throws at you, you need to have a repertoire of responses which is (at least) as nuanced as the problems you face.
- Avoiding the hypster
- Rights of Passage-We do these all the time to pattern interrupt our lives.