Ten Ways to Introduce some Randomness into your Life

Because we all need to get out of our routines once in a while

The first question you might ask is why you would want to introduce any sort of randomness in your life. A lot of people I know like that there’s some sort of order and organization in the day to day. Think about a boss that randomly changes their whim every hour and how hard it would be to do work for that person.

But there’s also merit in introducing some randomness in your life. If you think about your life now (and I’ll explain this in math terms), you might be at a local optimum — a ‘hill’ if you will if you chart your life’s satisfaction, happiness, well-being, etc. on a graph. You have optimized everything and feel like you can’t improve any further. Except that the actual maximum is another hill — to get to that hill, you have to slowly knock yourself out of the local maximum, have things be chaotic or not optimal for a while and then slowly improve until you get to another maximum. Introducing randomness into your life can help you get there. It can also help you knock yourself out of a rut if you feel like you have been ‘stuck’ for a while.

If you feel like you’ve been in a rut and want to knock yourself out of it or if you feel the need to get yourself out of a routine for the better, try…