The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Boring may be better, why routine may be best for certain health goals.

Let me first point out that I'm not arguing for a routine life. This isn't about settling

for the rest of your days without variability. Going primal should never mean checking your

sense of adventure or love of novelty at the door. If anything, it calls for us to grow our lives beyond the socially drawn scope of all things,

work, big commute, and must-see TV.

It encourages us to branch out of our comfort zones and conventional limits.

Intermittent euphoria, flow, thrill, abundance, and even a certain amount of risk,

boost the heights of primal vitality.

As success story after success story show, people often discover they've not only invested in health,

but learned to expand their horizons. Life takes on greater dimensions as they venture into new

activities, leave behind old identities, and make unimagined

changes for the better. All that change in newness is good, but today I want to put in a good

word for routine as a critical tool, particularly for certain health goals. There's a flow-bear

quote I stumbled on once. Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be

violent and original in your work. I've always been more of a science man than an artist, of course,

and I don't know that carbohydrate curves or sprint intervals could ever be creatively violent anyway.

Nonetheless, something about the underlying concept always stayed with me.

It begs a fundamental, even pivotal question. Where do you want the freedom to be bold and

impulsive, or at least spontaneous in your life? And where do you want the security of being

fixed and, relatively speaking, unyielding. Take a moment to think about that one.

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