Our Default Self Is a Foundation Worth Protecting

When was the last time you examined your Default?

1. The Reinvention Culture

We live with pressure to grow, to upgrade ourselves.
Sometimes, change — not wisdom — becomes the goal.

2. The Misread Foundation

We’re taught to see our default self as “less than.”
So we treat our natural state as something to fix
Sometimes, desperate for change,
We embrace reinvention without measured reflection.

3. Our Original Architecture

Our default self is not minimal.
It is the baseline integrity of who we are.
The self that came before habit-forming:
• Self-preserving
• Self-directed
• Meaning-seeking
• Truth-seeking

4. Original Wiring

This is the self that:
• Restores alignment
• Initiates movement
• Seeks direction
• Clears distortion

The self that grounds you.
Default is not what you discard.

It is what you protect.

5. Innate versus Conditioning

We abandon our original wiring too quickly.
We confuse habit-forming with our innate default self.
Those conditioned defaults included:
• Outdated narratives
• Inherited beliefs
• Unrealistic expectations
• False assumptions

6. East-West Lens

Tibetan thought recognizes innate goodness — present,  intact
Reinvention works best as refinement, not erasure.
Without discernment, it risks abandoning what was sound.

7. Rediscover Your Default Self

Notice what grounds you.

Default is foundation.
Worth protecting.
Worth preserving.

•••••••••

© My-Tien Vo – November 26, 2025