We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.
The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.
I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.
I don't know how to do nothing else. I started out doing what I do, and I try to stick to what I'm doing.
If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.
If you waive loans, it will encourage everyone to opt for more as they think they can get away with it in future.
So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.
People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.
