SIX at 6: A Dividing Line Between Success And Failure, Staring At A Word, The Creating Brain, A Productivity Trick, A Night of Pure Boredom, and Periods of Nondoing - Billy Oppenheimer
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SIX at 6: A Dividing Line Between Success And Failure, Staring At A Word, The Creating Brain, A Productivity Trick, A Night of Pure Boredom, and Periods of Nondoing - Billy Oppenheimer
“We were not [seeing] a passive silent brain during the ‘resting state,’ but rather a brain that was actively connecting thoughts and experiences.” Essentially, Dr. Andreasen found that the brain defaults to creativity. When we sit with boredom, when the mind is allowed to float freely, the brain engages in what she termed REST (“random episodic... See more
Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: A Dividing Line Between Success And Failure, Staring At A Word, The Creating Brain, A Productivity Trick, A Night of Pure Boredom, and Periods of Nondoing - Billy Oppenheimer
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