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Boredom –The Boon


Want to create something new, require a new idea for next meeting or your client wants a superior new design of your product but you can’t think of any or just need to focus on your studies this exam season…… Go bore yourself to death.

What!!!!!

Yes, just try boredom .Confine yourself in a place without any television, internet connectivity, books (if you like reading) and leave behind your best friend you can’t live without-your mobile phone. Deprive yourself of any chances of entertainment or socialization.

Aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………..really, you can’t be serious!

Yes I’m pretty sure. Our mind is very much like us…a lazy bum. It does not want to do much until it is forced to. That’s why Thinking is a difficult task. Unless and until it is really critical for our survival we don’t come up with something new. That is why amount of discoveries and inventions were way too high in ancient history than in modern times. With time, as humans has developed ways to keep them entertained the curiosity has veined into depths of darkness.

I thank my son for edifying me on this subject. It’s just that we locked his tab n TV for the ongoing examination, the boy was as parched as he was not able to gulp down his food without his daily dose of cartoon shows, he picked up a book which I bought him two years ago. The book reading really helped him in his composition writing examination.

This incident reminded me of the routine evening power cut in my childhood days. The power failure gave all the children of neighborhood to come together in lanes and play. We use to create new games to amuse us, and once we created our own TV show with our parents as audience. But as the electricity got regular everyone got back to the ritual of eating their dinner in front of the idiot boxes.


The basic sign of creative mind is to remain in one place and being able to travel a thousand new places. Take the trip, bounce ideas around. Don’t just follow the herd, do things your own way. So station your mind at one place sans distractions of modern world and let it travel abroad to bring back the souvenirs of nascent ideas.

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