Illustrated guide · October 7, 2026
Tipping Triads: The Two-Triad Example, Without the Maths
By Daniel Preisach
Some habits come in threes and hold each other up. Knock one over and the other two tend to follow. A picture guide to the paper's six-habit example.
Key ideas
- One dial for how a person stands with the world, and six sticky habits that click on along it.
- Three habits pull a person down: overconfident, defensive, rigid.
- Three lift a person up: candid, flowing, improving.
- The surprise: a person can end up holding habits from both sets at the same time.
What it means for you
Small shifts cascade. Preisach helps Claude notice when one habit starts tipping the others, while there is still time to steer.
This paper presents Daniel Preisach’s own work. It builds on peer-reviewed research (Preisach, 1935; van Hecke, 2021) and marks which parts are established and which are proposal.