- when you're bored, your mind is looking for a particular stimulation
- when you allow yourself to resolve boredom with dopaminergic activities like video games, you reinforce for yourself the idea that this is how to relieve yourself of boredom. Your brain in turn will learn to immediately reach for unproductive, dopaminergic activities to make the boredom stop
- if you resist the boredom (procrastinate on boredom, procrastinate on procrastinating) your mind will start thinking creatively
- shower thoughts, hikes - times when your boredom is unresolved and creativity follows it
- capture your fleeting creative impulses
- instead of falling for a craving or a desire, jot it down and meditate on it, think it through. Ask yourself: "What else can I do?"
- Examples - jot things down, work on small business idea, doodle, anything but falling for your boredom resolution
- The reason why we typically don't do this is we don't have the habit of it and we don't reinforce it
- reflect on the work that do
- people are not good at it
- Playing a game a lot does not reflect on skill
- physicians who practice a lot are not necessarily the best at a specific task but the ones who reflect are
- It may help you to visualize this step as an IRL replay analysis. Bronze tier players in video games stay bronze because they don't actively seek out their mistakes and tro to correct them.
- rereading notes, revisiting older work helps create new ideas
> instead of falling for a craving or a desire, jot it down and meditate on it, think it through. Ask yourself: "What else can I do?"
I will quite literally "ride out boredom" by lying down in bed and ponder into nothingness at times as a means to procrastinate. Maybe even fall into choice paralysis and end up doing nothing as I spend all my time arguing over what is most productive. I thought video games and internet were the problems, but I think it's just coping mechanisms for loneliness and depression.
https://youtu.be/8PYhEWK2wVA
Some scattered notes from this video:
- when you're bored, your mind is looking for a particular stimulation
- when you allow yourself to resolve boredom with dopaminergic activities like video games, you reinforce for yourself the idea that this is how to relieve yourself of boredom. Your brain in turn will learn to immediately reach for unproductive, dopaminergic activities to make the boredom stop
- if you resist the boredom (procrastinate on boredom, procrastinate on procrastinating) your mind will start thinking creatively
- shower thoughts, hikes - times when your boredom is unresolved and creativity follows it
- capture your fleeting creative impulses
- instead of falling for a craving or a desire, jot it down and meditate on it, think it through. Ask yourself: "What else can I do?"
- Examples - jot things down, work on small business idea, doodle, anything but falling for your boredom resolution
- The reason why we typically don't do this is we don't have the habit of it and we don't reinforce it
- reflect on the work that do
- people are not good at it
- Playing a game a lot does not reflect on skill
- physicians who practice a lot are not necessarily the best at a specific task but the ones who reflect are
- It may help you to visualize this step as an IRL replay analysis. Bronze tier players in video games stay bronze because they don't actively seek out their mistakes and tro to correct them.
- rereading notes, revisiting older work helps create new ideas
- ride out boredom