Well-worn grooves are just that: well-worn. They’re comfortable and familiar.

So sometimes what we need is a bit of jostling. Electively or unexpectedly, an unsettling of the repetition.

Because we’re not machines. And anyway, we have machines to do machine work.

What we need is the right balance of pattern and surprise, of known and new.

And for that to happen, we have to find ways to exit the grooves.