Boredom is where a lot of ideas are hiding. Your phone keeps finding them before you do.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
Ideas arrive in the gaps, and the gaps are exactly what gets filled. A queue, a bus ride, five minutes waiting for somebody used to be when your mind wandered somewhere useful, and now every one of those slots has something in it designed to be more immediately interesting. Nothing is wrong with you for reaching. The competition is simply unfair.
Leave the phone in your pocket for the next three gaps you hit today and be bored on purpose. Keep a note open for whatever turns up, because it will seem unimpressive and be worth having.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What idea arrived the last time you were properly bored?
MORE IN PARADOX, METAPHOR & FOOD FOR THOUGHT
- A compass never raises its voice. You have to stop and check it. Most real guidance is quiet like that.
- A bike is impossible to balance standing still and easy at speed. Some things only make sense once you start moving.
- Old balance scales needed a known weight on the other side. You need a standard before you can measure yourself.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.