Humans are adaptive creatures. When faced with an obstacle, we change ourselves to overcome it. This is growth. When faced with the same obstacle repeatedly, we generally choose one solution and make it subconcious… And, what could be better? On our drive to work we can think about the woman with the stunning eyes, or work ourselves into a ridiculous frenzy over the new trash company our county has contracted with, and how the new garbagemen all seem so… seedy. These solutions, or habits, allow us to be completely unaware of what we’re doing and focus elsewhere. As a fantastic bonus, our highly evolved brain doesn’t even require us to utter the words Autopilot: Engage; it actually reads our mind! Wait, err..

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