Optimize for defaults - Shift your environment so that the good behaviors are easier and the bad behaviors are harder.
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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.
We will instinctively choose the path that requires least amount of work. This is a universal law that has huge implications in habit formation:
... 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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