Boredom is your brain clearing space. Don’t fill it with a feed every time it shows up.

The restless, unoccupied feeling is not a malfunction. It is what happens when nothing is being fed in, and it is usually followed by your own thoughts arriving, including ones that only surface in an empty stretch. Filling every gap immediately means those never get their turn.

Leave one part of the day unfilled on purpose, whether the walk, the line at the store, or the ten minutes before sleep. Expect it to be uncomfortable for a couple of minutes, since that is the part everyone skips. What comes after the discomfort is the reason to keep the gap.