BEND

Keep a loop that works and change what it aims at. The machinery is fine; the target, scoreboard, reward, or boundary it serves is wrong. You retarget rather than cut, strengthen, or stabilize. If nobody agrees what the right target is, settle that first.

Keep a loop that works and change what it aims at. The machinery is fine; the target, scoreboard, reward, or boundary it serves is wrong. You retarget rather than cut, strengthen, or stabilize. If nobody agrees what the right target is, settle that first.

Example

Your evening self-tracking loop runs reliably: you check the app, see the number, adjust tomorrow. But it scores steps walked, which you already hit. Bend it. Same nightly check, same reward, new number on the screen: lights out by 10:30.