There's a specific set of people who get a Zen feeling from doing things the long way.

I'm not one of those, my brain doesn't give me any more dopamine whether I spent a long time doing a thing or took a shortcut. I don't even get dopamine from completing the task, I just get a list of more things that need to be done.

Thinking about the world and oneself isn't a repetitive chore in the way washing your clothes is.

"I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I am" -- if I no longer think, what's left? Biomass? Why us then.. why not goo, or just more parking space?