Entire ways of acting and reacting—even mini-facets of personalities, tones of voice, turns of phrase—are also cached. These don’t have to be from someone else—they can be from the “you” of 10 years ago (which may have been a composite of your role models at the time). They are otherwise known as habits that you haven’t updated or re-evaluated for a long time.
The mini-pattern of action worked (or made sense) when you were 7, and it’s so second-nature that it hasn’t even entered your conscious awareness since then to give you a chance to reassess it.
Entire ways of acting and reacting—even mini-facets of personalities, tones of voice, turns of phrase—are also cached. These don’t have to be from someone else—they can be from the “you” of 10 years ago (which may have been a composite of your role models at the time). They are otherwise known as habits that you haven’t updated or re-evaluated for a long time.
The mini-pattern of action worked (or made sense) when you were 7, and it’s so second-nature that it hasn’t even entered your conscious awareness since then to give you a chance to reassess it.