The Subconscious Standard Sets the Behavioural Tendency — Who Picks the Move in the Moment He Is Surrounded

Different people choose differently in the same situation, yet one person shows a plain tendency: when pressure arrives he falls back on the same move. If every choice were made by weighing on the spot, that stability would be unexplained, so a mechanism must be at work. This paper concludes that the subconscious standard determines a person's behavioural tendency. The tendency is a narrow thing: the way of coping taken in a matching situation — in the moment he is surrounded, one hands to the nearest man, one risks the long pass, one uses a feint, one simply outruns them. The paper argues two things. First, that such a mechanism must exist: he cannot say why he chose it, the choice holds when the coach and the ground change, the moment is too short for any comparison to have been made, and knowing better, he does it anyway. Second, how the tendency is fixed: the subconscious holds stored conclusions and the measure by which they are turned into gain and loss, and only the two together yield a reading of what doing it is worth; that reading is supplied first, so a man already has a thinking tendency before he has reasoned, and thought then determines behaviour — which is why behaviour carries a definite direction. The paper writes differences of choice and never rank; it promises no one the ability to guess another's moment; it claims no innate fitting, sets no norm, gives no timetable.