There’s plenty of great research that shows that our actions are heavily biased by the default option. Given how important defaults are to our decision making, every once a while, it is helpful to ask ourselves – what is our default setting?
For instance, we can choose to:
– Trust or to doubt.
– Take responsibility or make excuses.
– Read a non-fiction book or scroll further down our Facebook feed.
– Ask the hard question or stay silent.
– Acknowledge mistakes and learn from them or pretend they didn’t happen.
– Observe or judge.
– Save or spend.
– Respond with fantastic attitude or be defensive and prickly.
– Love or hate.
– Exercise or watch TV.
– Care or be ambivalent.
Whatever the decision, our actions are likely to follow our default setting.
It is on us to choose wisely.
Very interesting concept, Rohan. You make me think about my default settings and I have to say that I’m not all proud of them. Time to give those a fix. :)
Cheers,
Anh
:-) We all have work to do.
:-D
This reminds me of my favorite talk ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
Oh. my. This is very very very very good.
Thanks for sharing, Shweta. I thought I’d wait till morning, check out the transcript and then respond. So totally worth it.