Being bored without a screen is a skill now. Rare skills are worth more.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Sitting still without reaching for anything used to be the default and is now something you have to practise. The ability to wait in a line, a car or a quiet room without filling it is becoming unusual, and unusual abilities get valuable. It is also where thoughts you have not had yet tend to show up. The skill is not suffering through boredom, it is being fine inside it.

Try one ordinary wait this week with nothing in your hands: the bus, the dentist, ten minutes before practice starts. It will feel long and slightly itchy. Do it a few times and that feeling thins out.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What can you do screenless that most people now cannot?

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