New Behavior Generator
Mental rehearsal pattern: see yourself doing the new behavior, refine, step in, run it kinesthetically until it's natural.
"The first 'try' that matters is the one you've already run a hundred times in your head."
What is New Behavior Generator? Mental rehearsal pattern: see yourself doing the new behavior, refine, step in, run it kinesthetically until it's natural. Public speaking, pitch rehearsal, difficult-conversation prep.
Standard NLP rehearsal pattern for installing new skills.
Public speaking, pitch rehearsal, difficult-conversation prep.
Don't just visualize success — visualize the recovery from the predictable mistake.
Use the model. Pick the move.
Mental rehearsal pattern: see yourself doing the new behavior, refine, step in, run it kinesthetically until it's natural. You've just seen this: Standard NLP rehearsal pattern for installing new skills. Which lever does the model recommend?
Pick a lever. There are no neutral ones — every incentive funds a behavior somewhere.
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The full taxonomy entry
Every concept in the Atlas uses the same structure — so New Behavior Generator can be compared, recombined, and cited like an element on a periodic table.
- Business
- Leadership
- Government
- Healthcare
- Education
- Sales
- Marketing
- AI
- Negotiation
- Media
- Public Policy
- Relationships
- Where in our org would New Behavior Generator most often show up unnoticed?
- Which metric, ritual, or contract clause quietly rewards New Behavior Generator?
- If we removed every payoff for New Behavior Generator, what behavior would replace it?
- Who benefits when New Behavior Generator persists — and who pays the cost?
- People defend the status quo using the language of new behavior generator.
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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See New Behavior Generator through 2 lenses
Each layer of the Incentives OS reframes this concept with its own thinkers, vocabulary, and diagnostic question.
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Which best describes New Behavior Generator?
Worked example, counter-example & concept map
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When you encounter New Behavior Generator, your prefrontal cortex has to do extra work to override the automatic response — and that override budget is finite.
Executive control, planning, impulse override, working memory, System 2. First thing to go offline under stress, fatigue, or low blood sugar. Why your 4pm decisions are worse than your 9am ones.
See Prefrontal in the Brain Atlas →Picked for you, from the Atlas
Ranked by shared learning paths, overlapping chips, and what you've saved.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.
Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).
Send the card, not just the link
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More definitions to follow
Every term in the Atlas connects to a dozen others. Pick any of these and see where it takes you.
Two things may be equivalent in effect but not in form.
Their failure: character. Our failure: situation.
Without active design, incentives decay toward gameable proxies.
Relying solely on metrics that are easily quantified while ignoring what matters.
Physically dividing a resource into smaller units slows consumption.
The mental zero from which gains and losses are judged. Move it, and the same outcome changes meaning.
Small changes that are not noticeable can add up to a significant change.
Old systems decline as new ones emerge in parallel; leaders steward both, not just kill the old or chase the new.
Stages of organizational AI capability.
Willpower fails; structure works.
The ability to focus on one voice in a noisy environment.
Tax/inspection exemptions on low-value parcels subsidize a flood of unverified imports.