{"product_id":"default-ezra-levi-sarphati-9798180533180","title":"Default: How Automatic Behaviour Shapes Your Character - and How to Change It","description":"\u003cp\u003eSometime 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDefault\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about that setting - the automatic behaviour that engineers call the \u003ci\u003edefault\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eDefault\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the same quiet machinery runs us all - and where, in the narrow margin, we are free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ezra Levi Sarphati\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180533180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"Ezra Levi Sarphati","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173566292223,"sku":"9798180533180","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/default-ezra-levi-sarphati-9798180533180","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}