The Benefits of Boredom

The average American adult today spends 11 hours a day interacting with media, mostly screen time. My best creative ideas are born when I have time and space between the busy work to just kind of let my medial prefrontal cortex wake up. The problem is that we're not bogged down with work, so other stuff bubbles up in our imaginations. If you want to take advantage of the full potential of your downtime, allow yourself to be bored.