As an active-learning, self-regulation guy, you might think I'm against habits. Not so! Good habits are necessary to free up resources for self-regulation. I'm enthusiastic about integrating habit formation into self-regulated learning models. Logan Fiorella is doing cool work in this area.
From Intention to Automaticity: Daily Evidence of Habit Formation in Students’ Everyday Lives - Educational Psychology Review
Students’ recurring behaviors are central to academic, health, and well-being outcomes, yet educational psychology has placed less emphasis on habit formation than on motivation, metacognition, and…
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November 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
As an active-learning, self-regulation guy, you might think I'm against habits. Not so! Good habits are necessary to free up resources for self-regulation. I'm enthusiastic about integrating habit formation into self-regulated learning models. Logan Fiorella is doing cool work in this area.
the reason armies just drill you to automaticity on skills is because it Works and Makes you competent enough to do things. more institutions should copy this. healthcare, fire, EMS, and LE in countries where it isnt fucking terrible do this too (in america we just give any idiot a badge and gun)
This is currently driving me nuts in my daughter's second grade class. She has 5 different processes that she does to do 2-digit arithmetic, and all of them suck compared to the standard algorithm.
I understand the philosophy. The philosophy sucks. "Drill it and kill it" works way better.
I understand the philosophy. The philosophy sucks. "Drill it and kill it" works way better.
November 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
the reason armies just drill you to automaticity on skills is because it Works and Makes you competent enough to do things. more institutions should copy this. healthcare, fire, EMS, and LE in countries where it isnt fucking terrible do this too (in america we just give any idiot a badge and gun)
In a 12-week study of 96 volunteers, a new habit took a median of 66 days to reach near-peak automaticity, and individual times ran from 18 to 254 days. The 21-day figure traces back to Maxwell Maltz’s Psycho-Cybernetics, not to a study. #Habits
How long does it actually take to form a habit?
How many days to form a habit: 18 to 254 in the best-known study, with a median of 66, and medians of 59 to 66 in a 2024 review. A missed day did not undo progress.
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November 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
In a 12-week study of 96 volunteers, a new habit took a median of 66 days to reach near-peak automaticity, and individual times ran from 18 to 254 days. The 21-day figure traces back to Maxwell Maltz’s Psycho-Cybernetics, not to a study. #Habits
Lior Tenenbaum: Automaticity of structural defects in fixed points of block substitutions https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.04880 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.04880 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.04880
November 4, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Lior Tenenbaum: Automaticity of structural defects in fixed points of block substitutions https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.04880 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.04880 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.04880
For the blog, Kayhan Qaiser interviewed David Bates about his book "An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence" (U Chicago Press, 2024), as well as how it relates to recent technological developments and subsequent literature in the field of critical AI studies. @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Autonomy in the Age of Automaticity: An Interview with David Bates
What we understand as “natural” intelligence has itself been constituted through our relationships with technical systems....
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November 4, 2026 at 2:52 PM
For the blog, Kayhan Qaiser interviewed David Bates about his book "An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence" (U Chicago Press, 2024), as well as how it relates to recent technological developments and subsequent literature in the field of critical AI studies. @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Can we stop with automaticity translating, directing to local site and dubbing everything!
If I want to read or listen to Norwegian (which I don’t speak) it is my choice. Just sad we aren’t allowed to learn something or have an own will.
If I want to read or listen to Norwegian (which I don’t speak) it is my choice. Just sad we aren’t allowed to learn something or have an own will.
November 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Can we stop with automaticity translating, directing to local site and dubbing everything!
If I want to read or listen to Norwegian (which I don’t speak) it is my choice. Just sad we aren’t allowed to learn something or have an own will.
If I want to read or listen to Norwegian (which I don’t speak) it is my choice. Just sad we aren’t allowed to learn something or have an own will.
A sensitive period for automaticity rather than ability: automatic visuospatial coding of touch requires visual experience in early life onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #blindness
November 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
A sensitive period for automaticity rather than ability: automatic visuospatial coding of touch requires visual experience in early life onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #blindness
A sensitive period for automaticity rather than ability: automatic visuospatial coding of touch requires visual experience in early life https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.70300 #blindness
November 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
A sensitive period for automaticity rather than ability: automatic visuospatial coding of touch requires visual experience in early life https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.70300 #blindness
what matters is if random people encounter a game and think it is AI not if there's a a campaign to flag a game as AI.
something that gives you reports over time is a better threshold for that for automaticity.
something that gives you reports over time is a better threshold for that for automaticity.
November 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
what matters is if random people encounter a game and think it is AI not if there's a a campaign to flag a game as AI.
something that gives you reports over time is a better threshold for that for automaticity.
something that gives you reports over time is a better threshold for that for automaticity.
This profile suggests the loss of L1 automaticity and likely, increased compensatory reliance on the L2. It also suggest a role of audio-motor difficulties in the manifestation of FAS. 5/5
November 1, 2026 at 9:29 PM
This profile suggests the loss of L1 automaticity and likely, increased compensatory reliance on the L2. It also suggest a role of audio-motor difficulties in the manifestation of FAS. 5/5
Autopoietic Turboencabulator. Autonomous Generative Neural Networks (Automata).automation is a type of simulation that can be automated by automating the autonomization and control mechanisms used to manage this automaticity through self
November 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Autopoietic Turboencabulator. Autonomous Generative Neural Networks (Automata).automation is a type of simulation that can be automated by automating the autonomization and control mechanisms used to manage this automaticity through self
Times table tricks & rhymes may help recall, but do they build understanding? Alexander Athienitis explores how #schools can develop automaticity, flu-ency & deep multiplication knowledge that supports success across maths: https://ow.ly/ZimJ5100ckn #teaching
October 29, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Times table tricks & rhymes may help recall, but do they build understanding? Alexander Athienitis explores how #schools can develop automaticity, flu-ency & deep multiplication knowledge that supports success across maths: https://ow.ly/ZimJ5100ckn #teaching
At bedtime, when I go to check that the doors are locked, I specifically put myself in a different mental mode (watcher mode, I guess we could call it) that avoids automaticity so I can see that, yes, I locked this door and double-checked it.
October 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
At bedtime, when I go to check that the doors are locked, I specifically put myself in a different mental mode (watcher mode, I guess we could call it) that avoids automaticity so I can see that, yes, I locked this door and double-checked it.
Why then does Russia pursue its current bombing strategy?
1. It sees itself as attacking Ukraine's overall ability to fight?
2. It can, given its relative missile & drone production capacity, and therefore does. Automaticity of militarism?
3. The frontline is stalemated?
4. Its driven by spite?
1. It sees itself as attacking Ukraine's overall ability to fight?
2. It can, given its relative missile & drone production capacity, and therefore does. Automaticity of militarism?
3. The frontline is stalemated?
4. Its driven by spite?
October 28, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Why then does Russia pursue its current bombing strategy?
1. It sees itself as attacking Ukraine's overall ability to fight?
2. It can, given its relative missile & drone production capacity, and therefore does. Automaticity of militarism?
3. The frontline is stalemated?
4. Its driven by spite?
1. It sees itself as attacking Ukraine's overall ability to fight?
2. It can, given its relative missile & drone production capacity, and therefore does. Automaticity of militarism?
3. The frontline is stalemated?
4. Its driven by spite?
France, Germany and Britain could explain w contrast.
Capitalism is fine. Greed is not good.
Our political system is broken. Media is too eclectic in its coverage.
The average person spends very little time thinking. Jung would say automaticity rules.
Thinking is difficult, inconvenient.
Capitalism is fine. Greed is not good.
Our political system is broken. Media is too eclectic in its coverage.
The average person spends very little time thinking. Jung would say automaticity rules.
Thinking is difficult, inconvenient.
October 23, 2026 at 12:53 PM
France, Germany and Britain could explain w contrast.
Capitalism is fine. Greed is not good.
Our political system is broken. Media is too eclectic in its coverage.
The average person spends very little time thinking. Jung would say automaticity rules.
Thinking is difficult, inconvenient.
Capitalism is fine. Greed is not good.
Our political system is broken. Media is too eclectic in its coverage.
The average person spends very little time thinking. Jung would say automaticity rules.
Thinking is difficult, inconvenient.
Times table tricks & rhymes may help recall, but do they build understanding? Alexander Athienitis explores how #schools can develop automaticity, flu-ency & deep multiplication knowledge that supports success across maths: https://ow.ly/UauY5100cjG #teaching
October 23, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Times table tricks & rhymes may help recall, but do they build understanding? Alexander Athienitis explores how #schools can develop automaticity, flu-ency & deep multiplication knowledge that supports success across maths: https://ow.ly/UauY5100cjG #teaching
France, Germany and Britain could explain w contrast.
Capitalism is fine. Greed is not good.
Our political system is broken. Media is too eclectic in its coverage.
The average person spends very little time thinking. Jung would say automaticity rules.
Thinking is difficult, inconvenient.
Capitalism is fine. Greed is not good.
Our political system is broken. Media is too eclectic in its coverage.
The average person spends very little time thinking. Jung would say automaticity rules.
Thinking is difficult, inconvenient.
October 23, 2026 at 12:56 PM
France, Germany and Britain could explain w contrast.
Capitalism is fine. Greed is not good.
Our political system is broken. Media is too eclectic in its coverage.
The average person spends very little time thinking. Jung would say automaticity rules.
Thinking is difficult, inconvenient.
Capitalism is fine. Greed is not good.
Our political system is broken. Media is too eclectic in its coverage.
The average person spends very little time thinking. Jung would say automaticity rules.
Thinking is difficult, inconvenient.
A TEF with teeth!
Regular cyclic assessment and the automaticity of student number cuts two big things to like in this latest iteration of quality regulation.
Regular cyclic assessment and the automaticity of student number cuts two big things to like in this latest iteration of quality regulation.
October 22, 2026 at 8:06 AM
A TEF with teeth!
Regular cyclic assessment and the automaticity of student number cuts two big things to like in this latest iteration of quality regulation.
Regular cyclic assessment and the automaticity of student number cuts two big things to like in this latest iteration of quality regulation.
Context cues drive automaticity in training too. Same time, same place, same first movement each day.
October 21, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Context cues drive automaticity in training too. Same time, same place, same first movement each day.
🧀 Habits have context.
Lally and colleagues tracked everyday habits for 12 weeks; repetition in a consistent situation was linked with greater automaticity.
💬 What cue starts your routine?
https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.674
#HabitBuilding
Lally and colleagues tracked everyday habits for 12 weeks; repetition in a consistent situation was linked with greater automaticity.
💬 What cue starts your routine?
https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.674
#HabitBuilding
October 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM
🧀 Habits have context.
Lally and colleagues tracked everyday habits for 12 weeks; repetition in a consistent situation was linked with greater automaticity.
💬 What cue starts your routine?
https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.674
#HabitBuilding
Lally and colleagues tracked everyday habits for 12 weeks; repetition in a consistent situation was linked with greater automaticity.
💬 What cue starts your routine?
https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.674
#HabitBuilding
Try seeing each bead as not being part of a larger group. Nice demonstration of the automaticity of perceptual grouping...
October 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Try seeing each bead as not being part of a larger group. Nice demonstration of the automaticity of perceptual grouping...
The Somnambulistic Creed: Automaticity, Unconscious Scripting, and the Absolute Internalization of Victimhood
The Unconscious Recitation of the Martyr Myth When an individual mutters phrases of unrequited sacrifice in a state of somnolence or advanced intoxication, they are no longer putting on a…
The Unconscious Recitation of the Martyr Myth When an individual mutters phrases of unrequited sacrifice in a state of somnolence or advanced intoxication, they are no longer putting on a…
The Somnambulistic Creed: Automaticity, Unconscious Scripting, and the Absolute Internalization of Victimhood
The Unconscious Recitation of the Martyr Myth When an individual mutters phrases of unrequited sacrifice in a state of somnolence or advanced intoxication, they are no longer putting on a calculated performance for an external audience. In these moments, when conscious cognitive control recedes, the persona deployed during waking hours dissolves. The repeated verbalization that dependents "must understand" the trauma of his sacrifice represents an automatic recitation from the deepest layers of the psyche. This is not a lie designed to deceive others, but the leaking of an entirely internalized self-narrative.
molamola.live
October 19, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The Somnambulistic Creed: Automaticity, Unconscious Scripting, and the Absolute Internalization of Victimhood
The Unconscious Recitation of the Martyr Myth When an individual mutters phrases of unrequited sacrifice in a state of somnolence or advanced intoxication, they are no longer putting on a…
The Unconscious Recitation of the Martyr Myth When an individual mutters phrases of unrequited sacrifice in a state of somnolence or advanced intoxication, they are no longer putting on a…
The Automaticity Trap: Why Automatic Decoding Is Not Effortless Reading
The Phenomenon of Automaticity and the Stroop Illusion A compelling and intuitive observation challenges the notion that reading is an inherently exhausting endeavor: for a fluent, literate adult, reading is largely an…
The Phenomenon of Automaticity and the Stroop Illusion A compelling and intuitive observation challenges the notion that reading is an inherently exhausting endeavor: for a fluent, literate adult, reading is largely an…
The Automaticity Trap: Why Automatic Decoding Is Not Effortless Reading
The Phenomenon of Automaticity and the Stroop Illusion A compelling and intuitive observation challenges the notion that reading is an inherently exhausting endeavor: for a fluent, literate adult, reading is largely an automatic process. When an individual looks at a word in their native language, they cannot actively choose not to read it; the visual word form area of the brain decodes the symbols instantly, converting print into sound and meaning without conscious effort. This cognitive phenomenon, famously illustrated by the Stroop Effect, suggests that text possesses an intrusive, automatic pull similar to visual media.
molamola.live
October 16, 2026 at 4:17 AM
The Automaticity Trap: Why Automatic Decoding Is Not Effortless Reading
The Phenomenon of Automaticity and the Stroop Illusion A compelling and intuitive observation challenges the notion that reading is an inherently exhausting endeavor: for a fluent, literate adult, reading is largely an…
The Phenomenon of Automaticity and the Stroop Illusion A compelling and intuitive observation challenges the notion that reading is an inherently exhausting endeavor: for a fluent, literate adult, reading is largely an…
Why Your Child Can Sound Out Words But Still Can’t Read: The Missing Piece Parents Don’t Know About
Why Your Child Can Sound Out Words But Still Can’t Read: The Missing Piece Parents Don’t Know About
Your child decodes every sound correctly, then forgets the whole sentence. The problem is almost never more phonics. It is automaticity, the moment word recognition turns instant, so attention is finally free for meaning. Here is how to start building it at home tonight.
The post Why Your Child Can Sound Out Words But Still Can’t Read: The Missing Piece Parents Don’t Know About appeared first on Learning Success.
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October 15, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Why Your Child Can Sound Out Words But Still Can’t Read: The Missing Piece Parents Don’t Know About
Times table tricks & rhymes may help recall, but do they build understanding? Alexander Athienitis explores how #schools can develop automaticity, fluency & deep multiplication knowledge that supports success across maths: https://ow.ly/E2wo50ZWRko #teaching #education
October 12, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Times table tricks & rhymes may help recall, but do they build understanding? Alexander Athienitis explores how #schools can develop automaticity, fluency & deep multiplication knowledge that supports success across maths: https://ow.ly/E2wo50ZWRko #teaching #education