Important: The Behavior Architecture 8-Day Cohort Scholarship Application is now open. The next cohort starts on March 19.
There’s a different sort of “stuck” that doesn’t seem too disarming from the outside.
Life appears to “work.”
Stuff gets done. The bills get paid. The calendar is full. You’re busy.
Busy. Busy. Busy.
And yet…
You wake up one day, despite all the busyness, you wonder what you’ve accomplished.
This is tenant mode.
I lived in it for far too long…
Something deep down always felt like ‘something’ was missing.
It’s easy to ignore: stay busy, check off the next box, doom scroll.
Check.
Check.
Check.
In the silence, you wonder, “Am I leaving something on the table?”
Maybe (like me) you even hear the late Dr. Wayne Dyer’s voice:
“Don’t die with your music still in you.”
Enter: Your Behavior Echo-System (BES):
This is your behavioral “home.”
You’re in it right now.
You’ll be in it tomorrow and (wait for it…) forever.
You don’t just live in “the world.”
You live in your personal Behavior Echo-System.
Your Behavior Echo-System shapes and influences your behaviors in the moment and over time.
Right now, you’re reading this (environment). That may make you think, “This is dumb,” or “This is helpful,” or… ???
Then you may feel something or do something…
Sidenote: UBM scientifically presents the long-sought “causal” behavioral structure (architecture) that William James argued behavioral science must identify back in 1892: “This is no science. It is only the hope of a science.”
Let me be clear: UBM wasn’t assembled—or rather, “unearthed”—without the century-long discoveries, academic research, struggles, and insights behavioral science has produced since those statements.
Having said that, this is precisely what the Behavior Echo-System and UBM scientifically demonstrate: the causal structure. And UBM goes further by demonstrating elemental sufficiency through its “No Fifth Element” Challenge, now almost eight months strong.
Crucially, it’s NOT an “ecosystem.”
Ecosystems can be shared. You and I can be in the same room, city, country, auditorium, etc.
However, everyone “lives”—operates within their own Behavior Echo-System.
Even identical twins do not share a Behavior Echo-System.
Why?
Because one’s body (embodied environment), cognition (stories), and lived experiences are unique to them.
One person is criticized and thinks, “They hate me.”
Same experience, another person thinks, “Great—now I can improve.”
Einstein, a fairly smart man, smoked. Why? His story was that it helped him “relax.”
Two people witness the same speech: one thinks it’s idiotic, the other thinks it’s brilliant.
I’m sure you know very intelligent people (perhaps intimately) who, on occasion, do incredibly dumb things.
Why? Investigate their BES.
What’s the story they told themselves leading up to the behavior?
Or what feeling or emotion did they have leading up to it?
Or what was happening in their environment?
Or what behavior led to the behavior?
The point is: The Behavior Echo-System is a CLOSED, CAUSAL LOOOOOOOP!
Notice: logic and illogic are coupled within a person’s BES.
Habits and skills are also coupled within the BES—as shaped (over-time) behaviors.
And even body and environment are coupled; together, they represent one’s behavioral stimulus.
Even emotions and feelings are coupled.
This coupling—this systematic oversimplification—is what helped create BES’s causal structure and its elemental sufficiency: irreducible elemental domains.
If you remove just one, the entire BES collapses.
Taken as a whole, you have a person’s behavioral “HOME.”
Add anything—any behavioral concept—and you’ll find it is redundant and can be subsumed by one or more of the existing elements.
Same stimulus and different behaviors.
Each person lives in their own Behavior Echo-System, forever.
The BES is perpetual, dynamic, and personal.
What does this mean for you?
It’s terrrrrrrrrrrrrrific news!
Since the loop is yours, you can take inventory of its core FOUR elements/domains:
Cognition/Stories: logic and illogic
Behaviors/Habits/Skills: momentary behaviors and those shaped over time
Emotions/Feelings: primary and emergent; emotions and feelings relay information throughout the system, and their influence varies
Environment (Body): stimulus
From Tenant to Architect
You can’t control the weather.
But you can absolutely restructure your home—or even relocate it.
Change your environment (embodied and external).
You can also update your stories and build sustainable new habits and skills.
Do that long enough, and your “HOME”—your Behavior Echo-System—changes.
As your BES becomes aligned with your goals and ideals, you move closer to them.
This is what UBM and Behavior Architecture teach, along with habit tracking:
The process: identify the BES, take inventory, then identify what’s next for “home improvement.”
The blueprints are on the table.
Time to pick them up and start building.
Stop guessing! Start building and tracking TODAY!
~mg
keep on trackin’!
P.S.: UBM is the culmination of a twenty-year search to identify behavioral first principles. If you’re interested in learning more, I invite you to jump into our next cohort.
Thanks once again for reading and sharing. 🙏
Who’s the architect of your behaviors and goals?
P.S. We are quickly approaching eight months since the publication of the Unified Behavior Model™ (UBM). I know, EIGHT freakin’ months!!
That’s the great news.
The other news… unfortunately, due to the growing popularity of UBM—and because Google had begun indexing and surfacing the paper directly in its search results (direct to Zenodo’s open science platform)—it appears the paper was flagged as spam and removed by their automated system. We’ve submitted a support request.
For a backup of the latest paper on PsyArXiv, visit UnifiedBehaviorModel.com.
UBM’s foundation is more solid than ever. Only four months left to try and falsify it to Win $1,000! Good Luck!! The “No Fifth Element” Challenge remains unscathed and wide open. 🙏
New Year. 🎆 New Science. 🔬 Finally, New You. 💪🏽
Important: The Behavior Architecture 8-Day Cohort Scholarship Application is now open. The next cohort starts on March 19.
👇 Behavior Architecture Course on Maven
🚨 The habit tracking controversy just ended. Yes, there was one. UBM ended it ; )
—> Section 7.0 of the UBM whitepaper Each and every objection about habit tracking dissolved Read all about it!
📄 Free habit tracking template: thehabitfactor.com/templates
📖 Full UBM whitepaper: UBM!
📚 The trilogy that unearthed UBM:
🌐 Learn more: unifiedbehaviormodel.com
🌐 Behavior Architecture: https://maven.com/thehabitfactor/behavior-architecture
