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Optimize for defaults - Shift your environment so that the good behaviors are easier and the bad behaviors are harder.
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Designed for you vs. designed by you
Default choices are not inherently bad, but the entire world was not designed with your goals in mind. In fact, many companies have goals that directly compete with yours (a food company may want you to buy their bag of chips, while you want to lose weight). For this reason, you should be wary of...
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Default decisions and their influence
Although we usually have the freedom to make a wide range of choices at any given moment, we often make decisions based on the environment we find ourselves in:
- If you sleep with your phone next to your bed, then checking social media and email as soon as you wake up is likely to be th...
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Position of products influences our decision of buying
We don't just buy products because of what they are, but we often buy them because of where they are. For example, items on store shelves that are at eye level tend to be purchased more than items on less visible shelves.
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Default choices
90% of your daily decisions happen automatically, many shaped by your environment. Thus, most decisions are a habit, not a deliberate choice.
To make smarter choices, design smarter defaults. And habits can be developed by shaping the invisible defaults of your life.
The Law Of Least Effort
We will instinctively choose the path that requires least amount of work. This is a universal law that has huge implications in habit formation:
- Create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.
- Reduce the frict...
To change a habit
... change your environment. Habits, both good and bad, can also be tied to the feelings and circumstances that come with an environment.
For more productive habits, engineer your environment to encourage them.
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