Behaviour isn’t a “thing”. It’s a wave.
Most leadership models treat behaviour like a solid object: “You are this. You do that.”
But in real life, behaviour behaves more like a probability wave.
An event hits your system. And in the split-second before you act, you’re not a single response… you’re a field of possibilities.
A whole wave of potential thoughts, actions and interactions.
Then it collapses.
Not into “who you are”… but into what you do.
That moment — the moment the wave collapses — is where leadership lives.
And what does it collapse into?
A particle: a specific, visible behaviour. In our language: an Energy Fractal — a tiny action that expresses your energy in the world.
What collapses the wave?
Not your intentions. Not your values. Not your job title.
Your wave collapses through a chain reaction:
Memory → Affect → Energy → Proclivity → Agency → Action
So by the time you “choose”, the choice has already been shaped by a deeper filter.
That filter is your five Proclivity Waves:
Game Changer
Strategist
Implementer
Polisher
Playmaker
Think of them as five internal waveforms that combine into one behavioural waveform.
They determine:
what you notice,
what you ignore,
what feels “obvious”,
what feels “unsafe”,
and what action your system is most likely to select.
This is your evolved default 'software'. It's the point where you ask, 'Do I really have free will?'
Here’s the uncomfortable truth
If you keep the same proclivity pattern, you’ll keep collapsing into the same kinds of actions.
You can read ten books, attend five workshops, and swear you’ve changed…
…but under pressure your system will default to the same collapse.
Your future is built from repeated wave collapses.
The key to changing behaviour
Don’t start by trying to change the action. Start by changing the wave that selects the action.
In other words:
Train the proclivity waves
Because when you change the filter, you change what becomes possible.
And when you change what becomes possible… you change what actually happens next time.
A practical way to do it (in 5 micro-fractals)
Pick ONE of these and repeat daily for 2 minutes (recursion beats motivation):
Game Changer (disruption skill)
➡️ “What assumption are we treating as law?” (Name one. Challenge one.)
Strategist (direction skill)
➡️ “What are we optimising for?” (Write a one-line outcome before you act.)
Implementer (execution skill)
➡️ “What are the next two actions?” (Not ten. Two.)
Polisher (quality skill)
➡️ “What would ‘excellent’ look like in one observable detail?” (Add it.)
Playmaker (interaction skill)
➡️ “Who needs energy from me right now?” (One message. One call. One alignment.)
These are not “tips”. They are new collapse patterns.
Repeat them long enough and your system doesn’t just choose differently… it becomes capable of different choices.
The punchline
Your behaviour is a wave. Your action is the collapse. Your proclivities are the filter.
Change your proclivity waves → change your future behaviour.
If you had to train ONE proclivity as a skill this year, which would it be?
