The Default Life - Designing Environments Where Your Best Habits Run Themselves

Most habit books tell you to want it more. To be more disciplined. To find your deeper why. This book starts from a different premise: your environment is already running roughly half your daily behavior - automatically, without your conscious involvement - and the question isn't how to force better choices in the moment, but how to design a life where the right choices are simply what happens next.
The Default Life is a practical guide to redesigning the five environments that shape behavior: the physical spaces you inhabit, the digital environments you live in for hours each day, the structure of your time, the social contexts around you, and the information that flows into your life by default. Across each layer, the same powerful mechanism is at work: friction. Reduce it for the behaviors you want.
Add it for the ones you don't. Set your defaults deliberately, and let them run. This book doesn't ask for more discipline. It asks for better design - applied once, in advance, so that your environment carries you on the days when willpower is nowhere to be found. Whether you share your space, have limited control over your surroundings, or have tried every motivation-based approach and watched it fade, the approach here works from where you actually are.
Your best habits don't have to be hard. They just have to be the default.