Automatic Response

An automatic response is a fast reaction that occurs before a situation has been examined closely.

It may feel natural, obvious, logical, or complete.

Automatic responses are not always wrong.

But they can become limiting when they end inquiry too soon.

In MNKY Math, automatic responses matter because they often protect the first explanation, the familiar story, the existing system, or the behavior people have already been trained to expect.

Examples of automatic responses include blame, praise, defensiveness, dismissal, compliance, avoidance, certainty, and moving on.

An automatic response may come from habit, role, identity, fear, fatigue, incentive, social pressure, prior experience, or automaticity trained by the system.

The question is not only: What was the response?

The deeper MNKY question is also: What made that response feel immediate, reasonable, or complete?