228 - Boredom is the key to creativity (Part 2)
The Futur with Chris Do
The Futur
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The week between Christmas and New Year's was some of the hardest days. |
| 0:03.6 | There's nothing really to do. In fact, you're supposed to kind of just spend that time with your family |
| 0:08.4 | and watch movies and just be cozy. I was so miserable. I realize that what makes me feel good |
| 0:16.4 | about myself and in business is to work. I want that boredom. I really don't know how it you tap into that and be okay with it and not feel |
| 0:26.5 | lazy. The For me, the most fertile periods of my life in terms of when I've had the best ideas, the clearest thinking, come from extended periods of nothingness. |
| 1:02.0 | No deadlines, no client calls. extended periods of nothingness. |
| 1:07.2 | No client calls, no demands on my time. |
| 1:09.6 | Super creative then. It's not the only way to be creative, |
| 1:11.6 | but I think it's important for you to build into your life and |
| 1:15.0 | your work the largest consolidated amount of discretionary time so that you get to decide what |
| 1:21.8 | you want to do with it. |
| 1:23.0 | Okay, Resa, what's up, man? |
| 1:25.0 | Super excited about this topic. |
| 1:28.0 | There's a difference between being bored and taking it easy, |
| 1:32.0 | you know, taking that moment to pause, breathe, allowing kind of thoughts to come and go naturally |
| 1:38.7 | and just explore in your mind I think are great, but I wouldn't consider that boredom and I don't know if you made |
| 1:45.6 | that distinction earlier on or even if it's a valid distinction but I think there |
| 1:50.4 | there is I think for me personally boredom is is more of a negative |
| 1:56.7 | being bored I don't want to say is for losers but but I'm gonna say it's for losers |
| 2:01.2 | but I'm gonna say it's for losers but I'm going to say it's for losers being bored is for |
| 2:05.3 | losers it I think it fosters complacency and complacency is kind of like the enemy, you know, there's infinite possibilities of things a person can be doing proactively to move forward and learn and grow in whatever whatever route there in. |
| 2:27.0 | And being bored is, I think, just floating around |
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