The Art of Getting Bored.

Tricks and tips from years of experience.

6 min readApr 20, 2020

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Q: Why should you trust me ?A: I made a point of writing this while being bored, something that I imagine a lot of people are experiencing right now, but also because I get bored easily and have been since I can remember, at some point I learned that being bored is usually the start to a new exciting project or life change, so now I embrace boredom as part of the creative process and life.

The stages of boredom:

1.The realization. You finished all your chores, work and/or are simply stuck somewhere with nothing to do, or worse with a very repetitive task you’d rather not be doing.

Suddenly a thought starts creeping until it is the only thought you have:

“Shit I am bored !” or maybe “Dude,man,this is boring!” or if you are not the verbal type, you make the following sound: hmmmpfffsssss ( pronounced like a slowly deflating balloon ).

2. Existential Angst. This one is fun. Your brain has suddenly found itself unemployed, but it won’t go down without a fight, oh no, who’s fault is this ? It might ask ( hint it’s probably you ), how did you allow yourself to stoop so low ? Remember when you were excited and happy ? The brain remembers and it wants to be there again…

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