Having some discipline is a tremendous advantage in both personal and professional life, much better life success multiplier than ie just raw intelligence. I gu

Having some discipline is a tremendous advantage in both personal and professional life, much better life success multiplier than ie just raw intelligence. I guess we all have seen it many times around us. In the sea of kids having 9 seconds attention span due to parents giving up on screen time, the ones with just a bit of discipline or focus will get much further in life, in whatever direction they will decide to pursue. And this is one way to get and maintain it, another may be cleaning dishes preemptively (well maybe not if you have family with 2+ small kids). There are many more. Not taking away from the benefits of automation and getting a bit of extra free time (nobody is thinking how cool it is to handwash all our clothes all the time, do we), but if you would say that instead you could do 10-15 mins meditation, learn something new or have a longer run outside, now that would be an improvement. Those passive activities you mention are one of the worst one how to spend extra gained time (albeit very popular due to easy access and addictivity). Just my take on some chores, I honestly believe making the life too easy has some negative consequences later and that's how I raise my kids, contrary to many other parents.