Let's Stop Optimizing Our Life

 

With the lightning pace of technology's changes the past years, let's face it, WHAT humanity faces are NOT the algorithms and that robots and AI will lord it over us and seize power all over us [because that is happening NOW as we speak].  BUT the bigger threat is that eventually we will eventually become indistinguishable from those algorithms and robots.  Sadly, everywhere from digital nomad gurus to the false prophets of productivity, we are egged to optimize ourselves.  Let us stop OPTIMIZING our life📗📙📘

Verily true, we hear OPTIMIZATION at work. And that's very fine because at the workplace, WHAT matters more are productivity, efficiencies, quality and throughput, all rolled into one.  BUT swing it into our life for us to OPTIMIZE it?  C'mon.  WHY do we need to OPTIMIZE every aspect of our existence?  We CAN'T even find carefully scripted routines for our daily mornings [and even our bowel movements]?  WHAT more of OPTIMIZING???

If there is one undeniable fact, it is the fact that there is NO aspect of human life WHICH we couldn't be doing better.  Our smartphones?  They are littered with numerous 'apps' that supposedly will help us either get better OR efficient by sort of turning our life into like a series of 'mini games' and pinging us incessantly [akin to those endless deep-sea 'pingings' trying to locate for tell-tale signs of that tragic MH370 flight💥💥💥

I remember this argumentative statement:  WE'RE SO BUSY STUDYING HOW TO OPTIMIZE OUR LIVES THAT WE NEVER STOPPED TO CONSIDER IF WE SHOULD OPTIMIZE OUR LIVES.  That brings us as unwilling hostages to the misplaced illusion of OPTIMIZATION.  As we all agree, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE.  We do have our chinks in our armor and we'll fix that [OR maybe NOT] BUT the end does NOT justify the means💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  Please DON'T get me wrong.  We're all entitled to set bigger and lofty goals in life and that's WHAT really matters.  From there, we thread that long circuitous road [with all the forked roads and even the cul de sacs] as we remain focused towards achieving our goals.  BUT that OPTIMIZATION thing, at best, that will be a distraction and at worst, that MAY throw a 'monkey wrench' on our lifelong journey BUT that's NOT WHAT we want to end up, right?  BTW, many of the tragic failures in life were exacerbated by our own earnest desires [in good faith] to squeeze our own selves high and dry BUT NOT by getting dragged into that OPTIMIZATION riddle dude💚💛💜