How to Make the Most of Boredom
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that time has the ability to stretch and bend like taffy? Think about a time where you've felt rushed and 60 minutes seems to zoom by as you hurry to beat the clock. Now think of a time where you spent your day lying on the beach, soaking up the sun. Didn't that same hour seem to linger? Today's episode is all about how to make the most out of your time, how to savor the moment and make the most of boredom. I will share the 3 conditions that cause boredom and how you can start embracing boredom as a way to spark creativity.
What's In This Episode:
How to fill your days with substance rather than passing the time
Taking advantage of the benefits of boredom
Learning to use boredom to spark creativity
Allowing space for our brain to play and explore
Embracing boredom rather than moving away from it
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 10 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on helping you |
| 0:09.0 | achieve your best life. Join Tanya this season as she explores the concept of bending time |
| 0:14.4 | so you could stay focused on what matters most. To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak |
| 0:19.8 | productivity, simply go to inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:30.5 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 126. |
| 0:40.8 | How to Make the Most Out of Boredom. Now I know what you're thinking, why when I want to make the most out of boredom, it sounds boring, right? I know. |
| 0:48.0 | Boredom kind of has a bad rap. I get it. But I promise you're going to change the way you feel |
| 0:53.4 | about being bored by the end of this episode. |
| 0:56.8 | So before we get started, let me give a quick shout out to today's sponsor, Inkwell Press. |
| 1:02.7 | Inkwell Press has their new academic year planners available for purchase now, |
| 1:06.9 | and I'll be sharing a little bit more about those later on in the episode. |
| 1:11.8 | But let's go ahead and get started because I want to talk about boredom. |
| 1:16.6 | We're continuing our season on bending time. But here's the thing that I find so |
| 1:21.7 | fascinating about time. It has the ability to stretch and bend like taffy. |
| 1:28.3 | While we think about time as this very rigid straight line of hour after hour, I want you to think |
| 1:35.7 | about how do you perceive time? |
| 1:38.4 | Is it all equal? |
| 1:40.7 | Does it all feel exactly the same? |
| 1:43.0 | Or are there windows of time in your past that have felt long |
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