Life in Balance: Amit Chaudhary’s Blog
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Three Primary Patterns
1. Chain
- Stimulus -> response (thought -> result)
2. Loop
- A repeating chain (thought -> result -> thought -> result -> …)
- Self-reinforcing feedback loop
- Habit or addiction
3. Spiral
- An unstable loop where each pass through the loop changes in intensity
- 4 types of spirals: positive mild, positive intense, negative mild, negative intense

Three Ways to Break a Pattern
1. Break the stimulus (prevent the stimulus from ever occurring again)
2. Break the thought (stimulus generates a different thought)
3. Break the result (ruin the result you attain upon proceeding from the thought)

How to Change Patterns to Be Congruent With Goals
1. Identify your goal
2. Diagnose the patterns that are working against you (chains, loops, spirals)
3. Design a new set of patterns that will support you in reaching your goal
4. Use overwhelming force to break the old patterns and install the new ones

And the podcast: StevePavlina.com Podcast #004 - Using Patterns for Personal Development