Boredom gives you time to think. Boredom gives you time to meditate and turn ideas over in your mind. Boredom allows you to achieve more creative ideas.
We’ve become uncomfortable with being bored. You sit and wait for a haircut. You pull out your phone and stare at anything to fill those minutes with mindless filler. You go for a walk, but you can’t leave the earbuds at home.
The background noise must be piped in, otherwise, you might have an interesting thought drift through your mind. Or worse, you might begin to examine your life and the processes you use. It’s surely better to be distracted by TikTok videos that you’ll forget by bedtime.
My suggestion is: don’t stare at your phone every time you have downtime. Embrace the boredom and dwell on your thoughts. Running from thoughts, no matter how scary, is never good. You’ll spend your whole life running from them and miss out on living a better and deeper life.
Great ideas come to you in the shower. But not after you install that waterproof speaker. The shower is one place where we’re forced to drop the distractions and we have the most creative insight and deep thinking as a result.