Resort to using , an
old way of acting, or habit, to deal with a person or
situation. Can be negative or positive.
Negative:
One of his default settings is lying, because he's afraid of the
truth.
When
life gets overwhelming, her default setting is blaming others and being a victim.
It's
hard to delete the default setting, of alcoholism.
Positive:
I used to worry a lot, but I changed my default setting, to "let it
go" and now, things always seem to work out.
My default setting has always been, to look on the bright side.
It would be great if humanity's default setting was love.