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„Imagine a world where we didn’t get bored“ I feel this is the world we live in since 2007. Everything you can imagine is available right in your hand, taking

„Imagine a world where we didn’t get bored“ I feel this is the world we live in since 2007. Everything you can imagine is available right in your hand, taking away every possible space for boredom in your head. For every creative person this is suicide. I find this part of the article utterly important: „People who are bored think more creatively than those who aren’t.“. I explicitly take time off every day where I can get bored.

ForRealsies 9y ago
Great point. A populace absorbed with Circus & Bread is also more easily sedated.
- ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
  Until the Circus pauses or the Bread runs out. Then shit hits the fan... I often wonder if The Government shut down Starbucks and Candy Crush, how many days it would be before a full revolution.
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slfnflctd 9y ago
> For every creative person this is suicide. One of my greater recent personal concerns has been why my 'new ideas' bin remains empty for so much longer than it used to. Several culprits exist, but it's clear that constantly having a way to amuse or inform myself with a wide variety of fresh, new entertainment or factual minutiae to "fill in the cracks" of my day is a major perpetrator. I just remarked yesterday how I don't hardly mind standing in line any more. Back when I worked on a production line (with the shortest breaks allowed by law), I would fill napkins with all kinds of scribbles for at least half of my break time. A similar thing happened with text files in a very different setting, when my duties consisted of waiting for a phone to occasionally ring. The big question is how to properly cultivate the type of boredom that leads to this creative mental state. Neither of those situations I mentioned are ones I would choose to experience again.
- le-mark 9y ago
  I noticed a similar thing with myself. I think part of my decline of inspiration came from maturing and finding out a lot more about what is possible and not possible. The culmination for me was quoting my job and working on a start up full time. Which I abandoned after about 6 months. There were some really hard problems with the concept I only discovered when I hit them head on. That was my experience at least.
- Balero 9y ago
  Go for a walk. Leave your phone behind.
- zitterbewegung 9y ago
  Go to a coffee shop with no one and no phone except for a notebook with a pen. Take a drive anywhere with no set destination. Use public transit alone also would work . Go to a library and read a book that you may or may not like. Go to an art museum and look at one painting .
hinkley 9y ago
Distracted is probably a worse state than bored, over the long run. Distracted means never dealing with any of the difficult aspects of being a person. With bored, at least, you might get around to looking at some of that.

ForRealsies 9y ago

Great point. A populace absorbed with Circus & Bread is also more easily sedated.

ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
Until the Circus pauses or the Bread runs out. Then shit hits the fan... I often wonder if The Government shut down Starbucks and Candy Crush, how many days it would be before a full revolution.

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slfnflctd 9y ago

> For every creative person this is suicide. One of my greater recent personal concerns has been why my 'new ideas' bin remains empty for so much longer than it used to. Several culprits exist, but it's clear that constantly having a way to amuse or inform myself with a wide variety of fresh, new entertainment or factual minutiae to "fill in the cracks" of my day is a major perpetrator. I just remarked yesterday how I don't hardly mind standing in line any more. Back when I worked on a production line (with the shortest breaks allowed by law), I would fill napkins with all kinds of scribbles for at least half of my break time. A similar thing happened with text files in a very different setting, when my duties consisted of waiting for a phone to occasionally ring. The big question is how to properly cultivate the type of boredom that leads to this creative mental state. Neither of those situations I mentioned are ones I would choose to experience again.

le-mark 9y ago
I noticed a similar thing with myself. I think part of my decline of inspiration came from maturing and finding out a lot more about what is possible and not possible. The culmination for me was quoting my job and working on a start up full time. Which I abandoned after about 6 months. There were some really hard problems with the concept I only discovered when I hit them head on. That was my experience at least.
Balero 9y ago
Go for a walk. Leave your phone behind.
zitterbewegung 9y ago
Go to a coffee shop with no one and no phone except for a notebook with a pen. Take a drive anywhere with no set destination. Use public transit alone also would work . Go to a library and read a book that you may or may not like. Go to an art museum and look at one painting .

hinkley 9y ago

Distracted is probably a worse state than bored, over the long run. Distracted means never dealing with any of the difficult aspects of being a person. With bored, at least, you might get around to looking at some of that.