Life is an empty box

I’ve been doing some thinking about why humans are creatures of habit. We are. You in the back-- c’mon, admit it. You like your habits. You get up, hit snooze a certain number of times, drink coffee from a specific cup, take the same path to work, follow the same routine when you get there, etc.

So, knowing that, how in the world have we evolved?

I mean, humans like technology but are slow to adopt it. I think it’s about learning “what we don’t know that we don’t know.” We don't like the unknown and we like it even less if we know it's coming and we still don't understand it. It's like that new gameshow "Deal or No Deal." We know that what's in the box could be good or bad but we have to open it to find out.

What we'd rather do is put the box up in the closet until we HAVE to open it.

So why do we have this huge drive to create new stuff that we don’t want to use?