Repeated patterns shape personality and cognition

Manners maketh man
The motto of Winchester College, Oxford University

"Embodied habits create the very mode of a person's judgment."
The more extreme the situation, the more humans act on habit rather than ideology.

Therefore, "Manners maketh man" is not about
"Let's be polite,"
but rather a quite profound proposition that
"repeated physical habits make the human."

What is important is not
"strong success experiences"
but
"the accumulation of small, stable experiences."
Dispositional Optimism
is not formed by saying "I am amazing!"Rather, it is formed by the accumulation of a
"sense of recoverability," such as:
* Being able to breathe deeply and quietly every day
* Being able to correct one's posture
* Being able to recover from agitation
This is extremely important.

This is distinct from self-suggestive positive thinking.What is closer is

a nervous system learning that "the world will not end over minor things."In fact, the human brain is more strongly influenced by
"how one behaves" than by "how one thinks."
For example,
when

*
posture* breathing
* speech speed
* gaze* walking speedchange, the amygdala and autonomic nervous responses change.


This is not acting, but feedback.