20. When You Are Bored (things to do besides surf the internet and watch Netflix)
Soul and Wit
Bailey Carver
4.8 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Being bored is a good thing but if you constantly squash your boredom with scrolling the internet and watching Netflix might be squashing the benefits too. Check out these better ways to be bored.
Courtney and Bailey talk about:
When Bailey knows she’s really bored
Why it’s good to be bored
The benefits of unplugging when bored
Trigger thumb (what?)
The weird thing Bailey does when she’s bored
How Elizabeth Gilbert gave a book idea to Ann Patchett with a kiss
Find all show notes at soulandwit.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soul and Witt. I'm Courtney. And I'm Bailey. We are the mother-daughter duo here to make you laugh, grow, and feel more connected to your favorite things. |
| 0:23.1 | Hi, Bailey. |
| 0:23.9 | Hi, Mom. |
| 0:25.4 | How's your week? |
| 0:26.6 | My week's good. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm kind of glad that it's Friday. |
| 0:31.9 | Well, people listening right now, it's probably Monday. |
| 0:32.9 | That's true. |
| 0:34.0 | Happy Monday, everyone. You'll be really happy when it's Friday, guys. |
| 0:36.5 | It feels nice. We're recording this on like a Friday afternoon, and normally we record on Monday. You'll be really happy when it's Friday, guys. It feels nice. We're recording this on |
| 0:38.8 | like a Friday afternoon and normally we record on Mondays. So I am in a different headspace. |
| 0:44.6 | All right. Well, maybe this will be better than normal because it's Friday. I think it's all good |
| 0:49.0 | all the time. Okay. Yeah. All right. Just seeing if we have to switch up our schedule. To Friday afternoons. |
| 0:54.9 | I usually don't like to do anything on Friday afternoons, |
| 0:57.9 | except like turn off my brain and maybe read a little. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, that falls right into our topic today. |
| 1:04.2 | But first, let's start with our favorite things. |
| 1:06.7 | Okay. |
| 1:07.2 | So my favorite thing is a meal subscription service, but it's, I'll explain. It's called |
| 1:15.3 | Hungry Root. And essentially what you do is you pick six different meals, but they're like stir |
| 1:21.4 | fries or a flatbread or a taco. So kind of you can add to them or take stuff out if you don't want to or you could |
| 1:28.9 | mix it up with all the things you get. And essentially you're getting like 90% of your |
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