Deny autopilot. Change the default.
1) Anything that is important, anything that is worth doing, is worth giving your full attention. Deep learning and compounding improvement takes deliberate practice and full mindfulness to what you are doing is the first step. For this to happen you have to stop ‘going with the flow’. Don’t go with the flow, go into ‘flow’ (i.e. flow state). Deny autopilot.
2) The default option in most things in our life, whether it is options in the software that we use, the apps on our phone, the settings for our notifications, the subjects in our college, the options in our career et al, represents one of two things – a) what someone else wants your choice to be or b) the easier option that we will gravitate towards because it is the socially acceptable option. Think from first principles, understand the rules of the game, design the system that you want and that will make you disproportionally successful. Change the default.