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Set up productive behaviors that run without conscious effort.
Your defaults determine what you do in the absence of deliberate choice.
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.
How you communicate when not thinking carefully about it is your communication default.
Your automatic emotional reaction to events is a default that can be redesigned.
Whether you default to optimism pessimism or realism shapes your interpretation of everything.
Whether you default to quick intuitive decisions or slow analytical ones matters.
Periodically upgrade your defaults to higher-quality automatic behaviors.
Your defaults should reflect the person you are working to become.
Notice when you are operating on default rather than intention.
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.