Boredom is Good For Creativity – Why the iPad, Internet and TV Help Ruin Creativity

Boredom is good for creativity. Yes, you read that right, I advocate boredom in your life to help improve your creative potential. Lets explore this in a little more detail.

Look at life today. For most of us, being busy is a sign that we are achieving something in life or that we are progressing. Constantly keeping ourselves busy doing something, whether that be:

• working hard in our jobs
• shopping or other household chores
• organising something
• Looking after the family
• or even \’researching on the internet\’ – as no doubt you are doing now.

You see, we keep our brains so active all the time, that we do not allow ourselves the time to relax, the time to allow our brain to make connections between all the different stimuli we have given it and the time to thus allow creativity to spark.

We have some spare time and we switch on the TV. We feel slightly empty and we check our social networking sites or the Internet in general. We feel lonely and we pick up the phone.

There is nothing wrong with the above but modern technology has helped us take it out of control.

Mobile phones make it easy to connect and be connected with people within an instant. No longer do you only make phone calls when you were back home but we decide to make them anywhere and everywhere. Our precious quite time, GONE.

The portable and cheaper home computers make it easy for us to pass away time browsing aimlessly on the Internet, where perhaps we would have used that time to simply relax and enjoy our surrounding. Maybe we even would have used that time to practice a hobby, but for the most part that time is GONE.

That case is made even worse with the advent of the iPad. A portable lightweight laptop which makes watching videos effortlessly easy. Now even the quite time we had before sleeping is lost to watching movies and endless YouTube video clips.

But, all is not lost. The first step in any improvement is to become aware of what is actually happening and the second step is to take positive action to rectify the situation.

So to aid creativity, BRING THE BOREDOM BACK:

• Accept it\’s good to be bored from time to time, its allows you to reflect on events, and that is where we learn and create the seeds of creativity
• Limit your time spent watching TV and using the Internet. Perhaps set 45 minute limits and stick to it.
• Alternate, 45 minutes stimulus from TV/Internet or other source and 30 minutes of boredom or being without any electrical stimulus. (Some of these stimulus can be helpful, but in moderation, and I recognise that here)
• Take up old/new hobbies
• Decide not to use your mobile phone, not even to answer a call for one complete journey and observe the world around you with an open mind.
• Learn to enjoy, the moment when you mind can completely rest.

Boredom is good for your creativity. Accept it, embrace it and encourage it. Your creative mind will thank you.

This article is the second in my series on Creativity. Be sure to check out the first article too.

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Dee Kumar

Dee is a Reknown New Business Expert and is known within his field as ‘The Productivity King’. For more great advice and articles, and to follow his challenge to go from zero to 1 million within 1 year, visit: www.venturetothetop.com/the-challenge/.

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