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As human beings we literally do a lot of things on complete ‘auto pilot’ without consciously thinking. The routines we go through in the morning getting breakfast, brushing our teeth. Modifying how we conduct ourselves in our conversations. How we write code. We weren’t born with any of these behaviours - these were learnt but rather you could say were ‘programmed’ into us.
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It’s a really helpful concept when trying to change your own habits for the better. It’s also a very key concept in management when coaching - whether you are managing an internal team or helping a client fine tune a business process - it’s generally easier to focus on one big change at a time and have the expectation that repetition is required to get each change to happen.
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