A guest post from Adam Baker for Zen Habits
Every time we automate a process in our lives, we trade a piece of consciousness away for a piece of convenience.
This can be fantastic, as long as we ensure that we automate positive, sustainable habits.
The problem with automation comes when we try to apply it to areas in our lives that need more consciousness.
We run into trouble when we try to solve a problem by automating it.
Automation itself doesn’t fix anything.
In fact, automating a undesirable process only buries the problem even further.
“Problems can’t be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.” -Albert Einstein.
We cannot solve problems by trading away consciousness.
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