How to make the right choice the default choice... #shorts

9 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short motivational monologue, Elliott Botterill argues that business owners should turn the default choice into the optimal one by implementing "forcing functions"—publicly committed deadlines that create deliberate pressure. He explains that these forcing functions act like a "cup final" experience, compelling owners to perform at a higher level and thereby building an above‑average business.

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making my default option the right option. And that is where this comes in, because in the context of creating these events, we want to create forcing functions. And you as a business owner, if you aspire to doing great things, to building an above average business, then you need to start deploying forcing functions into your business. And so a forcing function is a specific date deadline publicly committed to that we are going to do a thing. And it's deliberate pressure that draws the performance out of us. It is us creating our own cup final experience.