I tend to use "bored states" to do all my planning tasks. In "deep work" or even deep work-adjacent states I am usually too focused on a problem to go back and

I tend to use "bored states" to do all my planning tasks. In "deep work" or even deep work-adjacent states I am usually too focused on a problem to go back and find things that should be getting done, or to consider the more systemic roadblocks, or to wonder what is going on with other teams or new technologies. I am glad for the moments where I am not in a meeting or doing deep work, in a way, because they give space to ponder what should come next. That said, the study is pretty flawed, because it asked individuals to self-select at two points (whether they found the task boring, and whether they daydreamed during it). I can find plenty of boring tasks I would daydream while doing over the course of an 8h workday, but finding a time-limited 15min task with zero difficulty so boring that you are daydreaming during it seems to me indicative of some kind of attention issue. I worry that it may be selecting for a personality type that is already more creative, because participants in the control conditions were not asked how often they daydreamed, and participants in the boredom condition were not tested on creativity before the boredom test.