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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/review-the-dominant-focus-on-a-trigger-not-on-every-mood",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9047",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Review the dominant focus on a trigger, not on every mood",
  "summary": "Focus needs a door out, but not a revolving door.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Choose review triggers in advance: a date, milestone, failed transfer test, changed market signal, new obligation or evidence that the bottleneck moved. Between triggers, continue unless a genuine urgent exception appears. At review, decide continue, narrow, switch or stop from evidence.",
  "limits": [
    "Do not use commitment to suppress clear evidence of harm, changed obligations or a failed premise. Triggered review should improve flexibility, not trap it."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-skill-acquisition-career-dominant-focus"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-A99D57B59D372E5E",
    "RS-7A99264A4FC59B61"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A review of cognitive control argues that adaptive behavior requires both cognitive stability for task focus and cognitive flexibility for switching when goals or circumstances change.",
      "source_id": "RS-A99D57B59D372E5E",
      "role": "contextualizes",
      "note": "This is a conceptual synthesis rather than a trial of a personal goal-prioritization system.",
      "locator": "Abstract, introduction and conclusion"
    },
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of adult work-related learning found goal level, persistence, effort and self-efficacy among the strongest self-regulation correlates of learning after controls.",
      "source_id": "RS-7A99264A4FC59B61",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The synthesis is older and does not establish that maximizing any one construct causes better learning in every context.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When the primary development goal is reconsidered daily based on motivation, frustration or novelty."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Do not use commitment to suppress clear evidence of harm, changed obligations or a failed premise. Triggered review should improve flexibility, not trap it."
  ],
  "example": "An assessment-prep focus is reviewed after two mock cases and one panel rehearsal, not after every difficult study evening.",
  "check": "The goal has a known review point and switching criteria that existed before the latest mood.",
  "steps": [
    "The goal has a known review point and switching criteria that existed before the latest mood."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-A99D57B59D372E5E",
      "title": "Principles of cognitive control over task focus and task switching",
      "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11409542/"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-7A99264A4FC59B61",
      "title": "A meta-analysis of self-regulated learning in work-related training and educational attainment: what we know and where we need to go",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21401218/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9047",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9048",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/switch-when-the-evidence-changes-not-when-novelty-appears"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-EA04F47374E04549",
      "title": "Learn new skills, turn them into career evidence, and protect the main development edge",
      "url": "/collections/learn-new-skills-turn-them-into-career-evidence-and-protect-the-main-development-edge"
    }
  ]
}