A few years ago I was talking to my friend and he asked me, “So I know that you are a person who likes to take in a lot of information and process it all at once. But what do you think is the most difficult part of self-awareness? When you have to ask yourself the same question repeatedly?” “Well,” I said, “When you have to get it all at once is when you have multiple patterns of thinking about the same thing.
The pattern you think keeps you going and the pattern you think keeps you going.
Like anyone would be able to do, the more patterns of thinking you have to do, the easier it is to make a decision. My friend said, “I think most of us have more of a pattern of thinking than a regular person does.” That was the question I was struggling with. I think I had to do a lot of cognitive work to figure out how to make my pattern of thinking work.
There are two types of patterns of thinking. The first is the “mood” pattern. Mood is the feeling you get when you have a specific thought in mind. The second is the “schema” or “belief” pattern. The schema pattern is what you use to make your decision. If your mood is high, you can make a decision easier, but it is harder to make the decision.
One of the most frequent things I hear about in our industry is the “Mood pattern”: The tendency to think about a specific topic or idea in a particular way. For example, a “Mood pattern is that all the time I’m stressed out, so every time I think about something I start to think of all the things I’ve been stressed out about.
Mood is a frequent topic in my life. It’s such a useful concept because it helps us to make better decisions. If we’re stressed about something, then we don’t really know what to do. We can’t go into a store and buy a pair of shoes that we’re really in love with because that’s not really the right type of shoes to wear.
I find this one so interesting because I know that my mom has been on mood lock for a long time. She gets stressed out about stuff all the time, but she still tries to do the right thing. Like, she still cooks dinner. She still puts the kids to bed. She still takes out the garbage. But it seems like she is on mood lock more than once a day and for longer periods of time.
This one is probably the most annoying. I’ve read a couple of posts where people were complaining about their lock not working and then they tried to get their lock to work and it wouldn’t. It seems like just about the only reason people get mood lock is because they’re actually going out of their way to make it impossible for anyone else to do so.
But I know you’re not going to say no. You’re not going to get rid of the two key-lockers, and you don’t even have to do that to yourself.
This is a bit of a mixed bag because, for a lot of people, the answer is simple: just turn off your lock. But for a lot of people, it’s not that simple. One of the problems with a lock is that it becomes a pattern. People start locking themselves out of their own homes. They want to be able to escape if they need to, or if they want to leave the house (or apartment) for any reason.
