Being able to sit with boredom is honestly one of the most valuable skills you can learn. It means you can focus for longer, it means you can do harder things, and it means you have a higher chance of success. It is a hard skill to learn, but an essential one.
“We trained ourselves to be distracted” might be the most important idea here. It makes attention feel less like a fixed trait and more like a skill we've either been practicing or neglecting every day.the part about deliberately getting bored again was especially interesting. Great read. thank you for the investing your time and energy to guide us for free.
This really made me think about how quickly we reach for stimulation the moment we feel bored.Maybe getting our attention back starts with simply learning to sit with that boredom again..
Being able to sit with boredom is honestly one of the most valuable skills you can learn. It means you can focus for longer, it means you can do harder things, and it means you have a higher chance of success. It is a hard skill to learn, but an essential one.
well said
Thanks
“We trained ourselves to be distracted” might be the most important idea here. It makes attention feel less like a fixed trait and more like a skill we've either been practicing or neglecting every day.the part about deliberately getting bored again was especially interesting. Great read. thank you for the investing your time and energy to guide us for free.
This really made me think about how quickly we reach for stimulation the moment we feel bored.Maybe getting our attention back starts with simply learning to sit with that boredom again..