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
Photo: Ella Olsson/Unsplash

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 long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.