https://qz.com/1020976/the-scientific-link-between-boredom-and-creativity/
see also
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/clive-thompson-7/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-boredom-could-make-you-more-creative/
https://hbr.org/2014/09/the-creative-benefits-of-boredom
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20170719-how-moments-of-boredom-help-us-achieve-more
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Boredom-Essential-Meaningful-mindfulness-ebook/dp/B01LZ53UQI/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=mark+hawkins&qid=1590362047&s=books&sr=1-3 (accessible via scribd)
apparently, infotainment is our antidote to boredom; is boredom "nothing happens", "nothing to do" ? out life, waking life, working life, mainly consists of "something tightly scheduled and required to do", and well, now, you have "nothing to do", and you are bored ? does boredom equal insomnia, like lars svendsen said ? being bored means your brain stops being stimulated, stimulated by what ? why craving to be stimulated ? a well-functioning brain is like a speedy computer, you have the illusion that you can process more, achieve more, more of what ? does boredom equal depression ? or being nearly depressed ? before being depressed ? a prodrome to depression ? creativity implies that you have a focus, after all, and the irrelevant bits finally find their home, so boredom means you have not found, or have lost, that focus, is that so ? when you sit under a tree, for nine years, see the seasons, coming and go, is that boredom ? meaninglessness is a void, filled up by our so-called exciting life, boredom is the honest face-to-face with that void; was medard boss bored, when he was gripped by heidegger's "being and time", repeatedly, in the nothing-happened alps ? does boredom equal malaise ? ennui ? fatigue ? chronic fatigue syndrome ? so, we are left with only two choices, stress or boredom ? what if i want neither ?
