Environment Design
Arranging people, places and defaults so the behavior you want becomes the easiest available option.
Discipline is expensive; friction is cheap. Move the phone, change the route, choose the room, pick the group. Environment is the quiet co-author of behavior, and it is far more editable than motivation.
Also called: environment · surroundings · room design
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