Wendy Wood had volunteers log, hour by hour, what they were doing and thinking. About 43% of their behaviors were repeated almost daily in the same context, often while their minds were on something else entirely. Much of your day runs on autopilot, triggered by place and time.
Remembering is not replaying a recording — it is rebuilding. Each time you recall a memory, it becomes temporarily malleable and can be altered before being stored again. That is why two people can sincerely remember the same event… differently.
In 2003, Johnson and Goldstein compared European countries. Where you must tick a box to become a donor, consent rates ranged from 4% to 28%. Where you're a donor by default unless you opt out, they topped 85%. People aren't more generous on one side; most simply stick with whatever option was chosen for them.