Whether you’re a homebody who seeks comfort or a thrill-seeker who thrives on new opportunities, most of us find the idea of novelty beneficial in some way. Our brains are attracted to pretty things, new possibilities, exciting adventures, or even something as simple as a new smell or sound. It’s a break from the ordinary, the intrigue of something new, a deviation from the familiar. Dopamine pathways are activated when novelty is embraced, which acts as a motivator and triggers those feel-good chemicals in our brains. Novelty can be a welcomed disruption to our daily routine. It allows us to gain just the right amount of enjoyment to awaken our senses and break out of the routine that life sometimes places us in. But even though novelty is beneficial and allows us to accept new challenges and experience some positive volatility, we can run the risk of creating too much of …