I agree with this 100% - boredom absolutely has a place and a role in our life. It's the place where dissatisfaction can push us to let something new into our l

I agree with this 100% - boredom absolutely has a place and a role in our life. It's the place where dissatisfaction can push us to let something new into our life. Sometimes when I'm starting to feel too overstimulated, I'll purposely allow some boredom in. I'll turn off my phone and internet, stop drinking coffee and just see what happens for a couple weeks. I don't push myself with an agenda like I'm going to "go to the gym", I just stop doing the usual things and see what happens. I'll generally run into a boredom wall after a few days (once I'm done catching up on sleep, etc). This is the point where I encounter a lot of temptation to get back on my phone or do the usual things. But if I just let myself experience the boredom for what it is, eventually I'll find that I'll get inspired to do something different - go for a walk or run, try programming something etc. But in these cases, it doesn't feel like a striving effort - it's more the effortless effort of doing something because I want to. These are what I generally consider to be the "healthier" moments in my life, and what I like about them is they don't feel forced - I just have to get through the feeling of not giving into my more shallow cravings and temptations, rather than forcing something over top of them, and the creativity comes naturally.