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The reward for repetition: your brain finally stops asking for permission.
means The quality of performing an action smoothly and without conscious thought, usually thanks to practice.
from Built from 'automatic,' which traces back to Greek 'automatos' — 'acting of one's own will,' from 'autos' (self) plus a root meaning 'to think or strive.' The '-icity' is just scholarly scaffolding, English's habit of nounifying adjectives to sound more clinical. So the word's own bones say what it means: self-moving, no permission required.
- basal ganglia
- habits get outsourced from thinking brain to this
- cognitive load
- frees willpower by making actions require zero decisions
- driving example
- experts steer while planning dinner, novices cannot
- double edge
- builds genius routines and bad habits identically fast