Hello, everyone out there on Internet Land.

It's your friend Chase.

Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis live show.

Today's micro show is something I call the unexpected catalyst.

First of all, I love unexpected things, because if it was always expected, then what a boring show.

And then I also love catalysts. I love things that motivate me, inspire me, get me moving to create, cultivate inertia.

Today's unexpected catalyst is embracing boredom as the vehicle to ignite your creativity.

Now, right, it's counterintuitive, but that's actually the point.

And today's hyper-connected, always on world.

Can you think of the last time you were actually bored?

Right?

Moments of genuine boredom, they are becoming increasingly rare.

We're always, constantly being bombarded with notifications or messages

or all sorts of streams of content. You can just be walking down the street in New York and

look and just you could be entertained by all the billboards and the digital signs and all this

stuff. We're always being bombarded with content, with

notifications and all the other stuff. Again, the mere thought of actually being bored, it seems

alien, right? Because say you are bored, say you're having dinner with your colleague or spouse,

they get up to go to the bathroom. What do you? You reach for your phone. When was the last time

you just paused and looked around what if

i told you that boredom that very state that we seek to avoid through all these distractions around us

what if that boredom could actually be a wicked tool in your toolbox to inspire it motivate and

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