Boredom is just “What’s the use?” in disguise. And “What’s the use?” is fear, andfear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page.
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Boredom is just “What’s the use?” in disguise. And “What’s the use?” is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page. Put anything on the page. Put three pages of it on the page.
“Yes, that’s true,” I said. “Boredom is not just boring. It can also be terrifying. It forces us to come face-to-face with bigger questions of meaning and purpose. But boredom is also an opportunity for discovery and invention. It creates the space necessary for a new thought to form, without which we’re endlessly reacting to stimuli around us, rat
... See moreBoring places can impact our mental health, stifling our ‘biological need for intrigue’.48 But boredom also has a purpose. As Sherry Turkle puts it, ‘Boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you.’49 For her, such moments are ‘signs to attend more closely to things, not to turn away’.
with a product-not-process orientation like this, is it any wonder that the aspiring writer is seized by anxiety?
This is why boredom can feel so surprisingly, aggressively unpleasant: we tend to think of it merely as a matter of not being particularly interested in whatever it is we’re doing, but in fact it’s an intense reaction to the deeply uncomfortable
boredom is the enemy, not some abstract “failure.”