What is success patterns?

Success patterns is a concept in personal epistemology: Your past successes share common elements that you can deliberately replicate.

Example: You notice that every project you shipped on time had three things in common: you scoped it ruthlessly on day one, you paired with one other person for accountability, and you protected your mornings from meetings. That's not luck repeating itself. That's a personal success pattern — and once you name it, you can engineer it into your next project before the first standup.

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