If you find yourself regularly working within mediums that require modicums of creative output, do you find yourself repeating certain tricks, methods, processes, bits, etc. that seem personalized or unorthodox to you for not much reason besides 'I just think they're neat' or 'I'm just comfortable doing this' or simply for the bit? At any scale/scope.
If so, what are they?
For guitar players 99% of the time you're going back to that 2nd-4th string minor pentatonic pattern because bendy + easy to move up and down the neck from there. See - a lot of rock songs (intro to Octopuses Garden, Reelin In The Years melody, Where Is My Mind melody and solo etc etc)