You’ve mastered the new cultural code. You’ve learned which aspects of adapting to a new culture are most challenging for you and why this is the case. You’ve even started to work on these challenges by adjusting your behavior so that it feels more legitimate and acceptable. What’s next?
The next step is to make these initial changes stick: to make them feel like they are second nature; to develop a comfort level with actually using this behavior in real situations. In sports, people use the term muscle memory to describe the way a movement or action that initially requires analysis and concentration becomes instinctive through practice and repetition. The muscles themselves ...
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