'rigid habit' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a phrase used to describe an inflexible and unyielding behavior that is hard to break or change. For example: "John had formed a rigid habit of rising at dawn every day which was hard to break."
Those assistants are empowered to coach in an uninhibited way because rigid habits and ego-driven loyalties to underperforming or miscast players simply don't exist in New York.
Each summer at the Caramoor Festival, in Katonah, New York, he presents two or three works from the golden age of bel canto — Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi, with Handel, Gluck, and Mozart also in the mix — and through an extended rehearsal process he pushes singers to cast off the rigid habits that they have been trained to adopt.
How could adults with already entrenched habits impart less rigid habits to the next generation?
Dewey placed his hopes for change in the education of youth, whose impulses have not yet been channeled into rigid habits.
Possibly, if we behaved more like a healthy, outgoing individual as a nation and took account of others' opinions of us then we might get more help, feel more part of the world community and be more lucky, make those chance connections that can change our lives, move outside the rigid habits and assumptions that reassure but also trap us.
We can learn to approach our current challenges with the understanding that rigid habits and the formulas we like to rely on need to be reviewed periodically to see if they fit the current situation.
Both of these elements tend to be the domain of brash young practitioners, who are not yet constrained by rigid habits of thought that almost inevitably result from long periods of study of a single problem, and who are not yet enmeshed in a discipline's details and complexities.
Present DAT-i mice displayed two profiles, consisting of either slower acquisition of LL preference plus late reaction to delay, or rigid habit-based responding.
Because individuals with an ASD-like presentation can maintain rigid habits and frequently show a strong insistence on sameness and are upset by change in routine, the Y-maze spontaneous alternation test was used to evaluate perseveration by monitoring the resistance to the change of arm choice (Fig. 5B).
Half of subjects were inflexible (i.e., stuck to a rigid choice habit despite a progressively increasing delay); the other half of mice were just residually flexible (i.e., considerably slow to acquire and to shift their choice strategies).
