Routine does not always mean automatic. Making coffee, getting dressed or leaving the house may still require an internal set of instructions, with each familiar step consciously located and completed before the next one appears.
- talking yourself through each stage of getting dressed on a work morning
- checking what comes next every time you cook a familiar meal
- rebuilding the leaving-home sequence from scratch while the clock keeps moving
- ending the day exhausted after completing tasks that never seemed to run automatically
Looks vs reality
The same Experience can look very different from the outside than it feels on the inside.
You handled that meeting so well, you seemed totally fine.
Thanks. I now have exactly zero percent energy left for the rest of the day.
Why is this taking you so long? It's not that complicated.
My brain is currently running a 15-step mental checklist for this 'simple' task, please stand by.
Just stop overthinking it and relax!
Relaxing is what turns on autopilot. My brain doesn't have that switch; this is me 'piloting' the plane.
You seem so organized and on top of everything.
It's a desperate survival strategy. If I don't consciously control every single piece, the whole system collapses.
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