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

Sarphati, Ezra Levi

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798180533180

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2026

Riassunto

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.

This is not another book of five easy steps. It is honest about what the science got wrong — willpower as fuel, the marshmallow test, "ten thousand hours" — and honest about how change actually happens: slowly, upstream, and never by force. From the firing of a single neuron to the rise and fall of nations, Default shows how the same quiet machinery runs us all — and where, in the narrow margin, we are free.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798180533180
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 292
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