“How could boredom be beneficial? In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, boredom is described as a precursor to insight and discovery. Parents sometimes want their children to be bored because they have an intuitive sense that grappling with this uncomfortable state is how kids discover what they’re interested in, quiet their mind, and find outlets to channel their energy. We wish more parents would trust that when their kids get bored, they’ll find the way out on their own, resisting the temptation to schedule activities from morning to night to keep boredom at bay. -Todd Kashdan (The Upside of your Dark Side)
I hate Boredom. It one of those feelings that I dread happening every time it rears its ugly head. Lots of people would say being bored isn’t all that bad, I think it’s the absolute worse. At times it acts as the greatest motivator to get me to go do something else, anything else productive. At others, it makes me hate myself and go take risks I wouldn’t normally take on a normal day, it can get me into trouble.
But behind the boredom, there’s Curiosity. It almost flows from one to another, a cause and effect. It makes it so that you get your body moving and doing some other action than what you are currently doing, which may be super boring.
Call it ADHD, Call it Motivation, Call it whatever you like, but if you don’t like being bored, then you need to create things and be insanely persistent about making that your default mode when you’re bored. It’s the only way to get past the boredom consistently.
Until Tomorrow,
Jason Ziebarth (Club255)
JZ#472