Be bored

Be bored. It’ll spark creativity. Maybe not good ideas. Maybe not inventions. But it’ll make use of your brain. Doom scrolling won’t.

Yesterday I didn’t use the computer at all. A few days before Christmas, off work, nothing planned. Just bored.

Then I woke up at 3am with thirteen ideas. That’s where these notes came from. Stream of consciousness. One idea, then the next, then the next.

The hard part isn’t being bored. It’s protecting boredom from yourself. The reflex to reach for your phone. To open a browser. To fill the silence.

It has to be a conscious decision. Put away the things.