Boredom is good. Let's seek out boredom.

[00:00:00] You're listening to the Daily Five, an experimental podcast by Aurooba, where I talk about something for five minutes. So let's get to it, shall we? So yesterday I talked a lot about wanting to create a schedule and a system in my life that would allow for deep immersion, let's think that through a little bit.

[00:00:32] In order to be able to create spaces of immersion in your schedule, what you need is a lot of time that you can dedicate to that. And in order to do that, you have to not be busy, your life cannot be filled with busy work, right? You effectively have to underschedule yourself so that you [00:01:00] can immerse yourself and spend a certain amount of time, or even longer when you need – not always, not all the time, but at a consistent rate, so that you can have that immersive time to do the work, that deep work that you wanna do.

[00:01:21] and I was thinking about how, and this came up in a conversation actually today with some friends, that it's been a long time in my adult life [since] that I was bored, you know, not like bored in the moment, but like bored for a stretch of time. I don't even remember the last time I had that, really. There's always been something I had to do or something I had to take care of and you know, we know that creativity and interesting things come out of [00:02:00] our lives when we are bored.

[00:02:02] Boredom is actually pretty essential to creating and innovating. It is only when you don't have other things to do that your mind pulls out these like really interesting things. helps you connect dots in really weird ways. And if you don't have the space to be bored, I'm not sure that you can then necessarily create some of that cool stuff you might wanna create or do that stuff as well as you might want to do.

[00:02:37] And it struck me that that's kind of sad, when did my life become so full of busy work? So full of smaller things or other things that are not as important to me as this other work I'm trying to do that I don't have time to be bored. That I am spending so [00:03:00] much time trying to figure out how to create immersive space in my life.

[00:03:04] Why doesn't this already exist and what does that say about my priorities? Right? Or what does that say about my attention towards my priorities? Because you know, I might say that, Hey, X, Y, Z is really important to me and I wanna get that done. But if I'm consistently not getting it done, either it's truly not important to me, or I'm letting myself be swayed into doing other things that are not important to me, instead.

[00:03:40] why is that? And I think, I don't have a complete answer to this yet, but I feel like, you know, there have to be ways that you can strip some of this busyness out of your life, but still feel like you have a full [00:04:00] productive social life. I think that when we try to do everything all at once, we do nothing very well.

[00:04:10] Right? Again, with the four burners theory that we have talked about before too, and I don't know, I guess I maybe need to not only try to create immersive periods, you know, schedule immersive periods, but also maybe under schedule so that when immersion needs to happen, it can spontaneously happen. Or I can be a little bored and come up with something maybe interesting, you know?

[00:04:43] That's what I'm thinking about today. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.