How to overcome Boredom?

"Boredom is the Means and ways to Novelty and Creativity."

What are the unusual places you get bored?

I often Get bored, in usual and unusual places. Sometimes, I do not want to wake up from the bed. Going to work every weekday can be overwhelmingly boring, if you just have to put caps, on bottles, Or have to wait for a customer to arrive for you to sell something. But if you ask me, I will say I might get bored in a crowded party. When others drink wine and talk about various measurements, I would be writing a poem about their stereotypical acts of routine conversation. And I think to myself, I must be special something to become bored in such situations. I wanted to press that red bored button and blow something up. Have you ever felt the same?

Wine

On classrooms with empty black Boards.

However, I think secretly I love being bored. As I mentioned in the opening statement, the boredom is a necessary evil which directs me to creativity. The biggest and best example is this blog. While having a casual boring chat with my friends, I was thinking about how I struggled to eat a crab the other day. I deliberately chose boredom over some company so I can create the spark of novelty. The way that see is like a "Empty your cup" philosophy. Imagine you were a student in High school. And you have a huge blackboard in front of the class. Every day when the teacher comes for a new class, someone cleans up the blackboard. Otherwise, the opportunity to write new things is lost.

From boredom to productivity - with 0 delay.

Similarly, if you mind constantly gives an output ant put it on the blackboard of consciousness, that is not at all going to be productive. The blackboard will always be filled up with routine stuff that you already know. There is simply not enough space for the mind to work with creative firestones of boredom. If you ask me so, then what can I do? I would say, embrace boredom when it arises. Notice its presence and watch it like you are with good old Joe who is unable to talk. Slowly it will go away, leaving traces of next immediate step you have to take in your struggle for survival. And my advice is taking this action immediately with 0 delay from Boredom to Productivity. As, the "Inspiration is Perishable".

Blackboards with empty spaces

CEOs and Kids - how to overcome boredom by embracing it.

So how can we overcome boredom?

This is not a secret. If you ask any philosopher, a CEO or a world-renowned leader, majority of them will say the most productive period of their day is when they are maximally bored by routines. Yet they follow their minds to these routines deliberately to meet up with creativity. I used to walk to the beach alone, or to the lagoon alone. Sit there for half an hour observing clouds, eagles or some migrating birds in the past. Just because I wanted to write an article for the blog. More than the writing, I enjoyed the boredom.

So, when my little daughter came to me and told, "Father, I am bored, what can I do?" I did not give her a task. It made me smile as; I knew if given enough time she would just come up with the most creative idea in next few minutes. Isn't it magical, how the dumbest feelings that we have to experience life is the way to connect with the universe? Maybe we should thank and praise boredom more often than not, as it has reshaped our world more than the science itself.