Being bored isn’t an emergency. Some of your best ideas are parked on the other side of it.

Boredom now has an instant cure in your pocket, so almost nobody sits in it long enough to reach the other side. What is over there is useful: the idea you were not looking for, the plan, the realisation about a friendship, all of which arrive only once your mind runs out of input and starts generating its own.

Be bored on purpose once this week. Twenty minutes, nothing to look at, nowhere to be. The first ten will feel like a waste, and the second ten frequently are not.