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Do you allow yourself to be bored at all? I recently realised I've been missing my "something" for a while.. ya I've not had a dopamine free moment since doom
by corobo 4y ago
Do you allow yourself to be bored at all?
I recently realised I've been missing my "something" for a while.. ya I've not had a dopamine free moment since doom scrolling became a thing.
Not comparing somethings, I probably couldn't write a spell checker much less a beautiful one, but my creative juices are much less clogged up since allowing myself to get bored.
I believe it's being able to combine a learned skillset with raw creativity (boredom) that gives a person that something you refer to.
- andai 4y agoFor me it's largely "the joy of finding things out". If I know there's a standard solution to a problem, I'll avoid the "spoilers" because I want to see how far I can get on my own. (And yeah, sometimes I just get bored of doomscrolling... Building things is a much more satisfying way to spend my time!) I often avoid things because I think they'll be hard, but then discover that they turn out to be easy. "Why didn't anyone tell me how easy this was! I could have done this ages ago!" was a running theme for me for a good while. Of course, sometimes things are actually harder than you thought. But they're still doable! Whereas I have this cognitive bias where "difficult" is (emotionally) equivalent to "impossible", which is just really unfortunate. I'm sort of starting to see through that, that everything's made of atoms, and once you break a task down far enough, the individual steps are trivial.
- corobo 4y agoAt least in my career so far all of the tasks I've been told are "impossible" just need another 5 minutes of thought - to the point I'm wondering if people do it on purpose so that I take over the task haha