The thing you choose to practice when you’re bored can become the thing you’re good at.

Skill accumulates in the unsupervised hours, because that is where repetition happens with nobody organizing it. Whatever you reach for when nothing is required of you, the ball against a wall, the guitar, the game, the sketchbook, is quietly collecting thousands of repetitions no lesson could schedule. Boredom is where ability grows, and it does not ask which direction you wanted.

Notice what your hands go to when you are at a loose end this week. If you like the answer, put that thing somewhere even easier to reach. If you do not, leave one other object out where the dull half hour will find it.