Boredom is a skill nobody is allowed to practise anymore
The last time I was properly bored — no input, no scroll, just a wall and time — I had three ideas I still use.
I do not think that is a coincidence, and I do not think it is mystical either. Boredom is just the state where your mind stops consuming and starts sorting. We have made that state almost impossible to reach by accident. Now you have to schedule it, which is ridiculous, so I have scheduled it.
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Scheduling boredom sounds silly until you do it. I block twenty minutes and refuse to fill it. Ninety percent of the time it is dull. The other ten percent pays for the whole month.
i scheduled boredom once and spent the whole slot thinking about how well i was doing at being bored
@Nubb That is the most accurate description of meditation I have read.