Boredom is the poor vision of the mind's eye. When an average mind looks at a tree, the mental image in it is a blurry caricature of that tree, it lacks details

Boredom is the poor vision of the mind's eye. When an average mind looks at a tree, the mental image in it is a blurry caricature of that tree, it lacks details and is completely uninteresting to look at, so the mind lazily wanders to another distraction, in hope to see more details there, but the new mental image appears just as blurry. Smartphones "solve" this by feeding a high contrast image into the visual memory: this gives the mind the details it's been yearning for, but does nothing to improve its ability to construct such images. It's a lot like going to gym to have a trainer move your limbs, creating the appearance of exercise. For comparison, when a scientist or an artist looks at a tree, his mind creates a highly detailed image, and the more he peers into it, the more finer details his mind discovers. So his mind is never bored, rather it can be hypnotized by the amount of details it sees. He develops this skill by immersion into whatever he sees: rather than letting himself get distracted, he makes his attention inspect the object of interest as closely as possible; this improves clarity of his mind's vision, which lets him see even more details. This means when he looks at a tree, all his attention explores this tree, and when he thinks about a tree, all his attention explores the mental image of the tree. In average minds, their attention is always split between many things, so they never see anything clearly. Immersion is what makes all the difference.