What is positive habits?

Positive habits is a concept in personal epistemology: Do not only look for patterns to fix — also identify and protect patterns that serve you.

Example: You spend your weekly review cataloging missed deadlines, unresolved conflicts, and procrastination episodes. But you never notice that every Monday morning you spend 20 focused minutes planning the week before opening email — and that this is the single habit most correlated with your best weeks. Because you never named it, you never protected it. When a new meeting lands on Monday at 8am, the pattern dies silently. You lose your best performing habit because you were only tracking your worst ones.

This concept is part of Phase 6 (Pattern Recognition) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for pattern recognition.