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Decompose each peak experience into specific conditions…
Decompose each peak experience into specific conditions (role, challenge level, autonomy, social context, stakes) rather than accepting surface-level activity labels, because values reside in the conditions of engagement rather than the activity itself.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from Expertise Transforms Perceptual Chunking (expertise changes perceptual chunks - here applied to self-perception), Schemas as Knowledge Organization Structures (schemas organize by relationships), and Abstraction Necessarily Discards Information (abstraction discards information). It prescribes moving from coarse-grained to fine-grained analysis of experience. It's actionable (tells you what to decompose), general (applies to any peak experience analysis), and addresses the systematic error of conflating activities with the conditions that make them meaningful.