Repeated movements

    Or “why do people love the routine?”

    For example, many people enjoy doing a tedious job, or have the same ritualized hobby, or play computer games that are very simple and do not develop any skills. What kind of reward do people get? Why doesn't it bother you?



    These questions have been haunting me for a long time. It seems that the answers to them could clarify a lot of the motives of human actions. I used the Q&A service and asked it.



    Of course, it was naive to believe that it would be possible to find out everything right away, but, nevertheless, I got funny results. Let me give you some interesting quotes, in my opinion.

    kotpes:
    Because people, performing routine work (actions), are hiding in this way from changeable (and far from routine reality). In routine work, they will not expect anything unforeseen that they would not be able to predict. Uncertainty and instability frighten the average layman (even despite the fact that this may promise some kind of benefits). Reward - people think that everything is under their control. Why not bother? - nobody wants to lose their peace.


    simplyv:
    The great thing is habit. I loved games, puzzles that yielded nothing but devastation. As for work, I don’t like routine, for me it’s a revelation that someone loves it. Maybe people like stability, understandability and this leads to a routine.


    FAV:
    I took an academician while studying. At this time, I got a job as an installer of radio equipment on a conveyor. So when you get used to it - you don’t think about work - you can think about anything. And I adapted to read, securing the book to the ventilation. At the same time, no one is cheating on you, nothing is annoying - I mentally rested. And skills - but I learned to solder for life! :)


    PureVirtual:
    I noticed a penchant for “routine” and also did not really understand why you are not tired of it and why you like it. For example, for several years I have been collecting electronic recordings of music that I like; and since there was a lot of marriage at first, I made it a rule to listen carefully to everything before adding to the archive, and since I like order, I set up a standard naming system for folders with albums and files, and of course the tags ... and a neat record of each added album in “ database ”along with related information (which was taken from appropriate sources such as allmusic.com and discogs.com and manually placed in file names, etc.). As a result, the whole procedure took about half an hour (excluding listening) for one album, and there were more than a thousand of them, which corresponds to about three working months with an eight-hour working day and twenty working days per month (there is no doubt that I actually spent much more time, I just do not want to fool my head with details). And so I spent hundreds of hours on a monotonous fuss with sound files, but for some reason I never got tired. I was happy to spend all my free time on it, it was a vacation, and even brought satisfaction.


    morph:
    Often I come across the fact that a person engaged in the creative process is easy enough to get rid of himself with simple routine actions. Make him rename all the files in his folder, copy something for a certain period. He will go into a stupor ... how is that? Sometimes he just does not understand what they want from him. He has disabled one hemisphere of the brain. This is true. True.

    Someone is aimed and well doing the routine collection, preservation, collecting, copying, repetition. Someone, on the contrary, does not see what is happening underfoot, invents, plays pranks, invents, creates ...

    Everyday life forces us to periodically turn on or off this or that part of the brain. You can read and solder, and straighten carnations and dream.

    And they noticed how wonderful the “cerebrospinal” ones are, they are routine, toys (all kinds of Zumas, Tetrises and Arkanoids) when you do not focus on them ...

    Rare individuals have balanced thinking in which both halves are involved. No, rather, rare life situations make us work with our whole head.


    chaturanga:
    Doing nothing is hard work. Bored! Yes, and to be a loafer is not very joyful. And then a person who is not accustomed to intense mental (or physical) work, often subconsciously finds the opportunity to do something, but without forcing his nature. And in deed - and without "torment." This is a mass phenomenon. Among such people there are even workaholics. He will sit day and night over what is familiar and easy to him. O. Henry has a story in which a certain aborigine with a zeal for ribbon picking grass between the plates. Nobody needed this job. But he felt so at work. Such a little self-deception. I'm doing a job! Please note that many people even prefer to watch films that they once managed to see. New is difficult to perceive. Man is not learned and not accustomed to think, to work on himself. "The soul must work day and night." Well - she doesn’t like it all. Easier to sort through paws, repeated movements ...


    What do you think?

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