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boredom should “be recognized as a legitimate human emotion that can be central to learning and creativity.”30 Falling into boredom allows our brain to tune out the external world and tune into the internal. This state of mind lets loose the most complex instrument known to us, switching the brain from the focused to the diffused mode of thinking.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Productivity Masks Emotional Pain
- Pathological productivity can mask unresolved emotional pain and depression.
- People use busyness as a coping mechanism, hiding how they truly feel inside.
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Judith Joseph
We were built with the DNA for joy. We're supposed to derive pleasure from the basic things in life. If you're not deriving pleasure from
A Slight Change of Plans • When Productivity Becomes Pathological
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“We will get to it, we say, when the kids are grown, when there is enough money in the bank, when we are retired, perhaps when we are dead; surely it will be easier then. But we need to ask now: What can I be wholehearted about now?”
— David Whyte
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
— Marcus Aurelius
Boredom is a filter. Common ideas come before it. Uncommon ideas come after it. Sit with a project long enough to get bored with it, then sit a little more. The most useful insights bubble up after you get bored. — James Clear
Reality vs. Imagination
No situation is boring in and of itself. Boredom arises only from our judgment — and from the implicit expectation that reality ought to be different from what it is.
via Mirko Marquardt
“When I am walking, all the clues to solving issues are at hand, but if I am not listening or attentive to those clues I miss key information. Attention is essential. When you have things on your mind, as we all do, walking helps to sort the mind. ‘Solvitur ambulando’ is a Latin phrase that means 'it is solved by walking'.”
— Libby DeLana, “Do Walk”
cf. Mindwandering, Default Mode Network
“Drafts are not supposed to be pretty. They're just supposed to exist.”
Stephen L. Webber, “Deep Freewriting”