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title: Be More Productive by Being Bored
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date: 2024-01-02T23:48:23Z
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author: "ahmza"
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tags: ["Prodcutivity", "Lifestyle", "Minimalism"]
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description: "In the modern age we are overwhelmed with stimuli. Learn to cut out the noise."
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## **Introduction**
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In the modern age we can get overwhelmed with so much information. In this post
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I try to explain the concept of increasing productivity through "boredom".
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## **The problem ?**
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I think the reason this is more relevant in our lifetime compared to past
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generations is the availability of stimuli. If you want to spend hours scrolling
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through social media, all you have to do is pick up your phone.
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**_The availability of tasks we can use to procrastinate keeps increasing._**
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## **Is this important ?**
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Our lives are full of stimulation and we try to race to the next "fun" thing.
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Count the times you have sat doing nothing, and without thinking pick up
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your phone.
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**_By having so much stimuli we neglect boring but important tasks_**
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**_Example 1:_** I find playing games more stimulating compared to cleaning and
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organising my space. If I removed games from my life then cleaning would become
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fun. My brain would find it more interesting than doing nothing.
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**_Example 2:_** Walking into a room with a book and a phone, almost
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instinctively we will go for the phone. Walk into a room with only books this
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changes. Maybe not straight away but you will pick up a book and start reading.
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## **What can we do ?**
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Remove over stimulating activities or "fun" activities to free up brain space
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and force yourself to find enjoyment in completing tasks you would consider
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mundane.
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**_By forcing ourselves into boredom, our brain finds tasks to keep itself
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busy._**
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**_Anything can be fun when you have nothing else to do_**
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## **HOW ?**
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**_This will require discipline_**
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**Structure your life.**
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- Write down all the tasks in your day (Including the fun ones)
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- Rank each task by how stimulating it is ("fun")
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- Also write down how important each task is
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Look at the tasks that sit at the top of the list, these should be the tasks you
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consider to be the most fun. Look at how important it is and consider getting
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rid of it.
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Another way you could do this if you are struggling is order the list by how
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important the task is. Then look at the tasks at the bottom of the list and see
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what you can remove.
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## **Conclusion**
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Restructuring your life like this will require discipline and commitment. You need
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to know why you are doing this, set a goal and keep it in mind.
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Remember that time you decided to take a few days off your gym routine to do
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something else and those few days turned into weeks then months -- I do --
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And you think about the progress you could have made in all that time.
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