How Boredom Leads To Greatness

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I'm watching this video to avoid boredom.

A few months ago I quit using my phone for an entire week and realised how productive I can be when I’m bored. The first two minutes of this video match so perfectly with my experience. I started doing chores, since “at least its more fun than doing nothing”. And it even allowed me to do things I loved but had procrastinated, like writing stories. That’s why I chase boredom nowadays

Once, when I was a child, i was waiting in the airport bored as hell and my dad told me:” Being bored is one of the most important things in life.” Only recently I discovered how much he was right

Im a loner and I spend most of my time alone with my thoughts and learned so much about life

Sleep is just Death being shy, while Boredom is the mind recognizing Life's emptiness.

In my own experience, boredom during the pandemic really helped me out. Starting having thoughts of exercising and believing that it would lead me to great things. As I enter my senior year High School, I went on to discover my hidden talent in running, and almost immediately became one of the fastest people in High School

In the early 70’s, there were no 24/7 screen devices. Out of boredom, I taught myself to play the guitar and the bagpipes around the age of 10. I’m grateful to that boredom because now, at age 63, it has given me a lifetime of joy playing those instruments. Boredom makes you less boring!

I have a lot of trouble sleeping, with it often taking an hour or two hours of lying in the dark before I actually sleep. I hated going to sleep because I found that hour before I actually fell asleep so boring. It was when I was offered melatonin I was faced with the option to get rid of that time. I felt conflicted about it because I knew it would lead to me getting more sleep, but I started to realize how much of my most creative thinking was done in that hour before I fell asleep. I’m really happy that I watched this video, because it really did a great job putting into words something that has been mulling in the back of my mind. I wonder what sorts of things I can imagine if I have more than just that hour before sleep to sit with my thoughts.

Being bored is actually more exciting than not the opposite

Thanks man. I needed this. I am on my phone literally 24/7. Social media and especially Tiktok is ruining my productivity. Best advice I have seen all year. I will hopefully embrace boredom

Productivity + Boredom = Finds an alternative way to have more fun and creative ways to learn

It's actually a gift to be bored you don't want to be someone who has so much to handle it overwhelmed themselves life is balance work hand play hard

Being alone with your thoughts is not bad as we think, it makes us delve within and think of things that are innovative and creative. Back then, being alone excites me a lot and my mind was actually noisy in a way it makes me think more and more stuff. I am really fond in writing and reading, as it was my favorite activities back then when wifi was barely accessible. It made me think of new concepts and create a whole story with my mind to the fact that it felt I am in the story itself. Ideas come at a random that felt like a "Eureka" moment, it was fun and I felt genuine happiness just thinking of new stuff in my head. But then when I got to college, everything became different and being alone with myself won't suit me in my current state so, I socialized, seek friends, and forced myself into others just for the sake of surviving the whole college thing. After that, being alone somewhat felt like uncomfortable again which I try to find ways to entertain my mind and it happens automatically. Things that are not enjoyable became a hard task and I usually procrastinate to avoid it without knowing I am being afraid of being alone with my thoughts. As I am writing this, I doing myself a favor to come back to what I was before, reviving the inner creative within, be alone with my thoughts. It's not easy but I'll try my best to cope with this "Fear of being alone" into something meaningful. I hope those who are reading this should not be a slave to entertainment and let yourself embrace the unknown, alone with your thoughts.

Replace boredom with solitude and instantly this presentation becomes world class.

I was staying at my dads place which is very remote. I was bored living there for a couple months. I started reading books on my kindle, which I rarely done before. I read 2 books and then started reading the Bible. I am now a practicing Catholic. Boredom is metal.

I love how the pacing of this video is a test for people to overcome boredom and truly listen

I've literally never allowed myself to be bored since becoming an adult. This is an interesting slant.

This was the greatest 7 minutes of my life and I will keep it with me.

I'm practicing self-improvement and discipline. Its so boring and unhappy. This helps alot!