The cost of convenience is vitality

Muhammad Fatchurafi This is Colossal

 

James Clear writes:

The cost of convenience is vitality. You can have a lot of things done for you in the modern world — and many of them are great time savers! — but the feeling of being alive comes from being fully engaged in the right task, not free from all tasks.

Sure, you can automate and delegate all sorts of things, but the more interesting question is, “What fills you with so much liveliness that you want to do the work yourself?”

 I like the first pithy phrase.  It's at the heart of the DIY movement and the granola culture.  It makes me think of "the dangers of convenience."

But the ending feels off to me.  I'm picturing the silicon valley bro that does everything "conveniently" except for one pet thing that he thinks will fill him with liveliness.  Cycling. Beer making. Scrapbooking (ok, that's a stretch).    

Instead, it should be something like "To what extent can you recognize THAT convenience vitality in different areas of you life and claw back some of that vitality, piece by piece."