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How to live a better life, by default

How to live a better life, by default

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Use Choice Architecture to your advantage

There are many choice architecture strategies, but having default options that were optimal changed my life for the better.

To have good default options:

  1. Eliminate bad choices
  2. Optimize your list of attributes

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1. Eliminate bad choices

1. Eliminate bad choices

Once, I fell sick with a sore throat because I ate too many crackers and didn't drink enough water.

To avoid this scenario, I stopped buying junk food entirely. If there’s no junk food in my house, it’s not possible for me to impulsively snack on junk food.

Instead, I started buying healthier options like granola and oats, with yogurt and nuts as toppings.

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2. Optimize your list of attributes

Whenever you evaluate a list of options, you’d usually consider each option by its attributes in some order of priority.

For example, as a broke college student, I usually evaluate food based on price and nutrition.

When I lived in expensive cities like Seoul and San Francisco, I prioritized price over nutrition most of the time.

Having fallen sick multiple times as a result of this choice, I now realize how expensive poor health can be, and try to prioritize nutrition over price as much as possible.

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Developer of solutions, people, and self / Living in 7 countries in 4 years of CS undergrad at Minerva University / Intentional living newsletter 👇🏼

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