Once as a kid I had an exceptionally boring summer day at home and hated it so much that I devised a way to avoid boredom ever again. I made a big list of all

Once as a kid I had an exceptionally boring summer day at home and hated it so much that I devised a way to avoid boredom ever again. I made a big list of all my interests from the big priorities to passing fancies and whenever I don't know what to do going through the list provides something worth pursuing. It was only many years later I realized that this was an accidental spontaneous invention of what William Edwards Deming came to call a Life List. His main purpose in that was to help people guide their careers and personal development. For me this article is strange, but the way I integrate this sort of thing is by picking an interest and really sticking with some aspect of it. That almost always leads to a kind of boredom, but it has a limited context that makes it different and maybe even more useful. Like the way giving an artist only a few colors to work with can lead to greater creativity.