Defaults Control Behavior 9× More Than Personal Preference
When choices are made for you, they become the invisible hand guiding your life. Research shows defaults are 9 times more powerful than active decisions.
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When choices are made for you, they become the invisible hand guiding your life. Research shows defaults are 9 times more powerful than active decisions.
Read Article →So I guess this is the part where I'm supposed to tell you about myself? I don't know, it feels weird. I'm just someone who reads a lot—maybe too much—and then can't stop thinking about what I read. Like, I'll be doing something completely normal, scrolling Instagram or making coffee, and suddenly I'm wondering about how defaults control behavior or whether external focus actually works better than internal focus. It's annoying, honestly.
I started writing these because I kept forgetting the studies I'd read. You know that thing where you remember the concept but not the details? Like, "I think it was around 300%" or "maybe it was in that journal..." So I started jotting things down. Then I thought, maybe other people also lie awake at night wondering about the same stuff. Maybe not. I don't know.
The articles here are just me trying to figure things out. Sometimes I cite studies—badly, probably—and sometimes I just ramble. I'm not trying to convince you of anything. Mostly I'm just confused and hoping that writing it down makes it make sense. It usually doesn't, but here we are.
Anyway, if you're still here, I guess we're both the kind of people who read too much and think too much and probably should just go outside more. But since we're here, might as well keep reading, right?
