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Identify keystone habits—patterns that cascade…

Identify keystone habits—patterns that cascade into improvements across multiple domains—and protect them as infrastructure rather than treating them as isolated behaviors.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Habits as Context-Response Associations (habit formation) and Schemas as Knowledge Organization Structures (schemas organize knowledge and guide processing). The principle prescribes treating certain patterns as structural rather than isolated, following from axioms about how behavioral patterns organize and influence other patterns.