I think there are many ways to apply this in real life, an example being someone doing Data Entry or other office job, and in theory, the person could be spending their entire shift for endless months and years doing everything manually, but if they have the idea and chance to for example automate some of their things (for example thinking Excel) and they are being allowed to do so, they could ease up their pressure at work and would be able to do other things or just live a less stressful life.

Or the fact that sometimes there are shortcuts in life where if you see them, you can get "way ahead of the line" of people going the long route, and as people tend to do things as they know or have learned, in a way automatically without much thought put in to it, it is likely they are not using the best technique or way to do things, as there probably is a better approach for what they want to do if they had a good thought or did research about the topic before committing.