How to be bored

Here is how I have been bored this week:

I sit in my room, put two hours on the mental clock.
Turn off the phone, like no, actually turn the whole device off, put it in a couch cushion or another room.
Sit.
Get bored for sure.

Then you will naturally figure out what you want to do. Eventually, you will want to start doing something. Anything.

Should I clean my room? Take out the trash? These things that you have not given your brain-CPU any time to process start to bubble up.

Maybe you decide to do a pushup. Like literally one pushup. Make a snack. Go on a walk? No, but you open a window and stare outside, get some fresh air in the room. Hmm window is dirty, maybe I'll clean it.

I don't know, but seriously, it is good for me, and it will be good for you. In doses. Why just doses?

Because on the other hand, maybe you need to actually do work. You need that just as much. Push yourself at something. Force yourself to ship.

So, boredom, is maybe not the whole elixer, but at least the the cup ...that holds the elixer of self-awareness. At very least it is part of the cup because you need both boredom and work.*

"You need both" is a recurring theme for me: physical work/brain time, thoughtful and active relaxation/mindless relaxation, mindfullness/mindlessness, hard physical work/light physical recovery, brain time/soul time.

Intentional boredom is the opposite of being insanely busy. Insanely busy looks good and you can brag about it and it brings financial, social, and physical results. Success.

What it does not do is quiet down things on the inside.

Insanely busy is work for the world. Quiet on the inside is work for yourself. Again, you need both.

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