<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A person without a plan is still inside plans.... > A person without a plan is still inside plans. Platforms, employers, markets, families, algorithms, and institutions continuously offer defaults; authorship begins when those defaults become visible enough to accept, modify, combine, or refuse deliberately. Unexamined defaults are among the quietest ways another system spends your attention for you. **Source:** [[livestreams/Directed Attention and the Discipline of Creation - Workbook|Directed Attention and the Discipline of Creation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A person without a plan is still inside plans. Platforms, employers, markets, families, algorithms, and institutions continuously offer defaults; authorship begins when those defaults become visible enough to accept, modify, combine, or refuse deliberately. Unexamined defaults are among the quietest ways another system spends your attention for you.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-person-without-plan-system-spends-attention ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->