Boredom is empty time asking what you want to make with it.

Being bored is uncomfortable because it removes the structure that usually tells you what comes next. That same discomfort is the condition in which people invent things, since a mind with nothing in front of it eventually starts generating its own material. Filling every gap immediately means never reaching that part.

Let yourself be bored for twenty minutes without reaching for anything. No particular aim, just do not solve it. Notice where your mind goes once it gives up waiting for input, because that is usually worth following.