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

Default (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798180533180

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