> Do you get stressed about all the preparations of showing up at the airport with everything you need?<p>Yes, quite a lot.<p>> If the [scripts] you have are working for you, you’ve discovered a reliable way to succeed and find satisfaction as you do. But if they’re not, it might pay to spend the energy to approach the next cycle, ‘as if’.<p>I don't know, does "the prospect of vacation is anxiety-inducing" count as "works for me"?<p>> What if you could leave the script behind, just this one time? [...] Rewrite the script, rewrite the outcome.<p>Not sure if "you miss your flight" is the outcome I'm looking for...<p>Point being, some of these "scripts" are the result of lessons learned. Possibly quite painful ones. "Ignore that for once" is both good and terrible advice. But yes, it probably pays to think about these ingrained responses from time to time.
I wrote a script to rotate SSH keys. This was the best that I could do.<p><a href="https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ssh-key-rotation-posix-shell-sunset-nears-elderly-keys" rel="nofollow">https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ssh-key-rotation-posix-...</a><p>It's a complicated procedure, and I've found a few improvements.<p>There is some value in the wisdom of the original article. Perhaps I should not have done it this way.
I think script here is more like in the movie/theatre sense.<p>> She’s going to give you some feedback. Is your first reaction to be defensive, or to lean into the goodwill that’s being offered?<p>I really liked this one in reflection to how so many code reviews seem to go down.
If there's something in my life that I can turn into a script...<p>I commit the script to a repo and host it somewhere publicly accessible :)<p>Then move on to the next interesting thing...
This is called a 'pattern interrupt'. You can apply pattern interrupts to daily life such as choosing a new route to walk each day, or when computing, choosing to work on a new OS to try it out. Variety is the spice of life!
From personal experience alone, I'm tempted to believe that all of psychology is just habits and metahabits. Of course, given the existence of an entire field dedicated to its study, I'm sure it's a bit more than that.