Hooke saw tiny rooms in cork and called them cells. Even the dullest things have structure if you look close enough.

A piece of bark is about as unpromising as material gets, and looking at it closely opened up the question of what living things are even made of. Dullness is often just distance. Most of what you have written off is something you have only seen from normal reading range.

Choose something you find boring this week: a subject, a street, a job you do on autopilot. Spend ten minutes examining it closer than the task requires, and write down three things you had never noticed.