default setting

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.

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