When Was the Last Time You Peed Without Your Phone?

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🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Yeah, it’s been a while for us too. So let’s reset. It’s the Bored and Brilliant bootcamp: three quick challenges to make space for brilliance in our accelerating world.

Maybe you’ve heard this episode before, but even if you have, a boredom refresher can’t hurt. Take some time to daydream, and see what ideas bubble up as your mind wanders.

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0:00.0	I'm using the phone anywhere from two to four hours a day.
0:04.0	I want to wrestle back my time.
0:06.1	I unlock the screen at average, 65 times a day.
0:09.0	I don't think I've ever been inspired to write a poem in my life, let alone on my commute.
0:15.5	Note to self, weekends are a great time to let your mind wander.
0:20.5	If you could look away from your phone for a minute, right?
0:23.8	It's okay, we're here to help.
0:26.0	I'm a new summer Odie.
0:27.2	And this week, a quick bootcamp on getting bored and brilliant.
0:31.6	Because when we first did the Board and Brilliant project two years ago,
0:36.0	tens of thousands of you took part.
0:38.6	We were all confronting the rise of the smartphone and how tough it can be to look away
0:44.4	when that thing pings at you.
0:46.4	Now, two years later, though, the book version of Board and Brilliant is coming this fall.
0:51.5	It's got new research, new insights and lots and lots of your stories, dear listeners.
0:56.1	It has action steps and activities so you can cultivate your most brilliant self,
1:01.7	which you can pre-order in all the usual places.
1:05.4	But meanwhile, we don't want the summer to go by without you getting a little bored and brilliant.
1:10.6	Particularly since we first did this project, things have changed big time, big league,
1:16.2	even some would say politically.
1:18.6	There's that whole climate change issue that really need to solve all kinds of things
1:23.7	that really need some brilliance to be solved.
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