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Default: How Automatic Behaviour Shapes Your Character - and How to Change It

Default: How Automatic Behaviour Shapes Your Character - and How to Change It

Sarphati, Ezra Levi

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General Psychology

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ISBN13: 9798180533180
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Sometime this morning, you did something you cannot remember doing. You made the coffee, drove the road, reached for the phone - while your mind was somewhere else entirely. For most of your waking life, you are not choosing. You are running on a setting.

Default is a book about that setting - the automatic behaviour that engineers call the default, and that turns out to be a remarkably exact word for a human life. Drawing on the science of the resting brain, the hidden machinery of habit, and the unwritten architecture of whole societies, it makes a single, unsettling case: that under stress we do not rise to the occasion, we sink to our defaults; that the sum of those defaults, hardened over years, is the thing other people call our character; and that changing them is the real, unglamorous work of changing a life.

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