The Nuance

How Too Much Routine Suffocates Your Brain

Habits and other automatic behaviorseven healthy onesfail to train some critical cognitive muscles.

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
4 min readAug 25, 2021

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It took a lot of work, but you did it. You optimized your daily routine.

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.