If you’re waiting for brilliance to strike, try getting bored first. That’s the takeaway of a study published recently in the journal Academy of Management Discoveries, which found that boredom can spark individual productivity and creativity.
In the study, people who had gone through a boredom-inducing task — methodically sorting a bowl of beans by color, one by one — later performed better on an idea-generating task than peers who first completed an interesting craft activity. (The task: to come up with excuses for being late that wouldn’t make someone look bad.) The bored folks outperformed the artists both in terms of idea quantity and quality, as ranked by objective outsiders who assigned uniqueness scores to each one.
It started with the evolution of mind and more usage of the brain. Meditation is the prime form to keep senses in place. But easier said than done. This brought the concept of entertainment. To keep us engaged in some or other way to channelize the thought process or in some cases to stop it.
Not a single day goes by without feeling good or even terribly sick. Many give up and withdraw in their loneliness. A legal solitude from “somewhere up there”.
Many wonder whether it is good for our future, for the economy, for education, and for our personal life and its surroundings. Well, I don’t want to swap with those up there ahd having to make the right decisions at the right time. You can already notice some things, people are becoming more and more aggressive, no matter where in the world.
Let’s entertain ourselves! Quite simply and clearly expressed. Since my retirement but staying longer in my home office, I’ve been trying to entertain myself. I enjoy writing more – writing was and still is one of my hobbies. I enjoy playing my different instruments. I ignored that for years.
I enjoy listening to music from my incredibly large record collection back to 1936. I put my photo album collection in the right order. Incidentally, this is a wonderful task, since I am currently working on my biography.
Entertaining means to talk with my wife and family personally too, and not only by messenger. Playing with the dogs, gardening, watching the daily TV-mass, praying … .
Yes, it’s our new abnormality we have to live with. We must not get down. Trust in God. It’s all in His hands.
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