Our exploration system is very useful, but it takes a lot of energy (and anxiety), because of the inherent cost of failure which genetics baked into our brain. Hence, doing something new everyday in a society as complex and everchanging as our own is very useful, but very hard with our outdated brain hardware and software.
Add to that the distractions that hijack our outdated brain mechanisms: we have gotten better and better and such hijacking, creating an additional barrier. Doing this is comparably difficult to keeping to a strict diet and exercise regime while mouthwatering delicacies and relaxed convenciences are offered to you at every turn.
You are trying to break patterns (habits), but it is extremely hard to create a habit/​pattern of newness, for habits/​patterns are fundamentally opposed to doing things in a novel way.
Our exploration system is very useful, but it takes a lot of energy (and anxiety), because of the inherent cost of failure which genetics baked into our brain. Hence, doing something new everyday in a society as complex and everchanging as our own is very useful, but very hard with our outdated brain hardware and software.
Add to that the distractions that hijack our outdated brain mechanisms: we have gotten better and better and such hijacking, creating an additional barrier. Doing this is comparably difficult to keeping to a strict diet and exercise regime while mouthwatering delicacies and relaxed convenciences are offered to you at every turn.
You are trying to break patterns (habits), but it is extremely hard to create a habit/​pattern of newness, for habits/​patterns are fundamentally opposed to doing things in a novel way.