Add Five Little Inconveniences to Your Day

Thanks to modern technology, drafting an email, ordering a meal or looking up that random actor's name you cannot remember has never been easier. But some are starting to wonder whether the quicker, friction-less path isn't always the best. Do we lose something by not engaging our brains on daily tasks?

There's a potential fix for that very modern problem: friction-maxxing. Kathryn Jezer-Morton used the term in a January article in The Cut in which she argued that reintroducing challenges — say, cooking dinner instead of ordering on Uber Eats — can help reorient people to discomfort and, as a result, make us more… human.

While you could argue that easy feels great most days, experts we talked to said that living a friction-less life may not be the best for your cognitive function over time. 

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.