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Bored and Brilliant Summary
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
- Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click i... See more
from 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings by Maria Popova
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- In a recent series of studies at Cornell University, psychologists Thomas Gilovich and Clayton Critcher asked participants to think about what they'd be doing if they weren't in the lab: Some were asked to think about leisure, others about obligations. Then, all participants completed a jigsaw puzzle. Afterward, they were asked if their minds had w... See more
from Could boredom be curable? - The Boston Globe
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