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How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas | Manoush Zamorodi

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How to Stop Being Boredomed

i want whatever brilliance that's in this head to emerge, which means i need to be more bored. When i feel this way, what additional evidence is out there to help convince me that my brilliant brain is atrophying away because i can't sit still or say off my emal? Well, here's a study, gehun park at australian national university. And her colleagues ran a study where half of the participants did a task that induced boredom. They methodically sorted a bowl of red and green bean by color, one by one,. The other half of participants completed a more interesting arts and crafts project. Both groups then had to generate creative ideas based on a prompt given

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