HOW TO STAY FOCUSED WHEN YOU GET BORED WORKING ON YOUR GOALS After my baseball career ended, I was looking for a new sport. I joined a weightlifting team and one day an elite coach visited our gym. He had worked with thousands of athletes during his long career, including a few Olympians. I introduced myself and we began talking about the process

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What if we saw boredom not as a warning sign but as a progress indicator?

When you're bored:

• You've moved past the shiny beginner phase


• You've reached a level of competence where conscious effort decreases


• You're approaching the territory where mastery can emerge


• You're at the exact point where most competitors quit

Boredom, in this light, becomes not... See more

It’s a dividing line between people who are successful and people who are not.” Mastery, Robert said, requires boredom and tedium. It requires doing the same mundane things over and over and over. It requires sitting with the frustration of putting in work that doesn’t immediately pay off. It requires sitting with the torture of, am I going to... See more