The Power of Defaults: Level Up Your Life by Making Smarter Decisions on Autopilot
Do you want to make smarter decisions everyday day? You can. All you need to do is harness the power of defaults.
90% of your daily decisions happen automatically, many shaped by environment. Thus, most decisions are a habit, not a deliberate choice.
And habits can be developed by shaping the invisible defaults of your life. To make smarter choices, design smarter defaults.
Is your phone charging next to your bed while you sleep?
It’s the first object you touch immediately after waking up. A ton of notifications await. Checking social media and email easily becomes a habit as soon as you wake up. And after at least a couple of minutes of infinite scrolling, you get up.
What if, instead of your phone, you place a water bottle next to your bed? For a while, you would feel something is missing. But soon enough drinking water becomes the first habit of the day.
Once you remove the phone from the picture, suddenly a good habit — drinking water after waking up — becomes easy to perform.
And that is the power of defaults.
