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Identity-behavior-alignment pattern: the structural tendency

Identity-behavior-alignment pattern: the structural tendency for misalignment between self-concept and actual behavior to produce internal friction, cognitive dissonance, and eventual collapse of the behavior, because sustainable behavior change requires identity-level support

Why This Is a Pattern

Exemplifies identity-behavior coupling. Recurs in "I am a runner" vs "I should run", diet identity, professional identity shifts.

Source Lessons

L-1141

Your identity and behavior should point in the same direction

When who you think you are and what you do are misaligned the result is internal friction.

Connections

Exemplifies (2)

AxiomHabits as Context-Response Associations AxiomActual behavior reveals operative values more reliably than

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