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Every deliberate agent you create replaces an unconscious default.
Define good defaults so that the do-nothing option is acceptable.
The structure of your environment determines your default behavior.
Most decisions are made by default — design defaults that serve you.
People follow the easiest path — make the desired path the easiest.
The same principles that work for personal choice architecture work for teams.
Configure your tools defaults to support your most common workflows.
What do you do when you have free time no agenda or feel bored — those are your defaults.
You can deliberately choose what your default behaviors are.
Setting a productive default means unstructured time naturally flows to something valuable.
Default food choices default exercise patterns default sleep behaviors.
How you behave by default in social situations reflects your automated social programming.
What you do automatically when stressed is one of your most important defaults to design.
What you reach for when bored reveals and reinforces your default patterns.
Compulsive phone-checking is a default behavior that can be replaced.
Replace an unproductive default with a specific productive alternative.
What your environment makes easiest to do becomes your behavioral default.
Your automatic emotional reaction to events is a default that can be redesigned.
The ability to notice a default activating and choose differently is a key skill.
When your automatic behaviors are all well-designed your baseline quality of life is high.
Changing your environment is more effective than mustering more willpower.