How Boredom Can Boost Creativity(m.nautil.us)
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How Boredom Can Boost Creativity
http://m.nautil.us/blog/how-meaning-withdrawal-aka-boredom-can-boost-creativity
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http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/to-be-more-creative-che...
http://www.wired.com/2010/10/feeling-sad-makes-us-more-creat...
Clearly everything boosts creativity
http://www.wired.com/2010/10/feeling-sad-makes-us-more-creat...
Clearly everything boosts creativity
Boredom is the best way to boost creativity. Forcing yourself to sit in a really boring place without the stimulation of a cell phone or a laptop, and only a pen and a paper, works wonder. Intake of psychoactive drugs, makes you high or low, and thus can help you get started, but is not recommended. Note that I am talking about caffeine, alcohol and nicotine when I say psychoactive drugs. Stronger substances is of course not recommended at all for creative work.
boredom, cheerfulness, melancholy [1], guess everything makes us creative
[1] http://www.wired.com/2010/10/feeling-sad-makes-us-more-creat...
[1] http://www.wired.com/2010/10/feeling-sad-makes-us-more-creat...
It's almost like creative people are individuals; breathing beings who experience complex lives. Lives that will later be scrutinized and categorized by others trying to figure out the "secret sauce" to humanity's most prized possession.
Seems like a dog eat dog world in 'creativity'.
If I'm sad, I'm too busy wallowing in self pity than to do anything meaningful.
If I'm sad, I'm too busy wallowing in self pity than to do anything meaningful.
Interesting read. Recently I conceived a similar relationship between boredom and long-term productivity and wrote a blogpost about it. http://www.dhfromkorea.com/boredom-is-powerful/
> http://www.wired.com/2010/10/feeling-sad-makes-us-more-creat...
> http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/to-be-more-creative-che...