#💡 #🟡 # ritual ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Feb 27, 2022</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Sep 10, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[Employee Engagement]] A study showing that rituals improve performance by decreasing anxiety defined rituals as: > a predefined sequence of symbolic actions, often characterized by formality and repetition that lacks direct instrumental purpose (p. 5). ## Sources [[Rituals Roadmap - Keswin 2021]] Primary source = Brooks et. al. (2016). Don't stop believing: Rituals improve performance by decreasing anxiety. *Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 137,* 71-85. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Rituals%20OBHDP_5cbc5848-ef4d-4192-a320-68d30169763c.pdf