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When you've done a task repetitively the human brain creates synapses, little connective wires that allow us not to think about the process we're engaged in. We're able to do things on autopilot without really thinking about what it is we're doing. It's the beauty of our evolution. It's why practice makes perfect. We don't think about tying our shoes, we just tie them, driving to work we turn on the autopilot and suddenly we're there.
While this aspect in which our minds work has allowed for our evolutionary success it also comes with a price. The price is that we become robotic in some aspects of our life, tedious and repetitive. It makes it more difficult for us to be impulsive and also to adjust to change because we're so good at what we've already practiced.
I encounter a lot of people who have set their lives to autopilot both professionally and personally. I see them on my lunch break their hearts beating just enough to allow for survival. They drive home sunken into their car seats. They're waiting to move up into the next position in the corporate ladder. These are the people who say, "well at least I have a job right now." I say, "crap on that." Who cares if you have a job if you hate it. Or maybe you don't even hate it but if you don't love it, so what?
Yeah, I realize there are bills to pay but do the bills that your robot life allow you to pay provide you with possessions that are more valuable than living a life you're excited about?
Don't tell me "sometimes you have to do things you don't want to." No you don't. You've just not taken the time to figure out how to stop doing them.
Please people, ask yourself why you go to work? If you don't have a good answer, get yourself fired and live on unemployment until you find something you're passionate about. I'm tired of watching you drool on your California Roll.
><((“> Jeff Brainard
