boredom is not fit to be part of the
Superbowl of fillings but I don’t think
so in my opinion boredom can be as
exciting as happiness sadness and anger
yes
exciting and yes I’m still talking about
boredom raise your hand if you know who
j.r.r tolkien is plenty of you right in
1968 Vivi civ had an interview with them
and in the interview he had said that
one day he was grilling his harvard
student semester tests when he came
across a blank page which a student
forgot to fill in
he started the bank page for several
moments not knowing what to do with it
when immediately scrambled down those
words on the blank page in a hole in the
ground there lived a hobbit and yes that
is how the hobbit will actually read in
here we can see it by the roll of
boredom one of the most creative pieces
of art were ever made by the teachers
simply staring at a blank page now we
all go through different different
emotional states we’d have happiness we
would be which would be some kind of
satisfaction would have sadness which
would be a factor of happiness we would
also have anger which would be
frustration feelings towards something
triggering and then tears boredom what
is boredom a lot of people try to define
it and categorize it but no one really
came about and to combine all the
definitions into one big thing we can
all agree upon the safest definition I
could think of is that border is simply
the lack of interest and the situations
where the brain has nothing to focus
about and what happens when you get
bored we start daydreaming and we do
that simply to find something for us to
focus on but boredom is more than that
boredom can also be understood as the
situations where we have no stimulations
stimulations are simple things what
people were brain busy and unfortunately
our van is very very addicted to those
stimulations also this these
stimulations are very very hard to seek
for and the brand has to be incredibly
creative in order to receive those
stimulations
but the brain is very very is a very
very determined object and it will do
anything no matter how creative and how
much time it will take it and
it gets the stimulation so until it gets
the stimulation for example when I was a
little kid in that one sitting in my
house is living room I can guarantee you
that I was extremely bored and I was
just staying out the window one day
dream led to another and one thought led
to another and they somehow managed to
think about adults and charging phones I
thought about how adults are so
concerned nowadays with charging the
phones and they said that I wanted to
make this entire concept of charging
much more enjoyable so I researched what
happiness was and then figured out it
was a chemical in the brain called
dopamine then I said what if we can
insert electricity into those hormones
and then insert the hormones into the
mobile phone and that way we can charge
the phone the mobile phone I actually
came up with an entire way to charge
your phone by being happy and anyway it
does not matter it was absurd and it
doesn’t matter that it wasn’t possible
it matters what I was thinking it
matters I was being creative and it
mainly matters if I was very very well
to begin with and in the beginning of
the entire process so let’s go back a
minute I’ve started boredom early
situations where we have no stimulations
and when we have no sting lessons our
brain will will be very very creative
until it finds a stimulation does that
mean that boredom leads to creativity
and more than that does that mean that
if we would never get bored we would
never be creative well believe it or not
but it is partly true there are many
many researchers made by the N name
which is the American neurologic
Association and they have already proved
many many times when we are world our
creativity level is very very high but
but when we are not bored our creativity
level is very very low and it’s almost
invisible to when we are bored if you
will put it on a scale see you know what
else does that mean it probably means
that if we would never be bored
probably nothing would ever be invented
in order to get the invention or
discovery it has to go through a long
chain of
which needed which Oh which starts from
boredom
invention would be a result of idea an
idea would be a result of thinking I
think thinking we are result of
creativity and we have all agreed his
work that creativity would be a result
of boredom and without this base of
boredom you can’t get to the top which
would they discover on or invention
imagine if our ancestors had iPhones
200,000 years ago then they would
instantly check Facebook or snapchat or
Instagram and nothing from and then the
fire would never be discovered the knife
would never been invented nor
civilization or clothing that is because
they would never have to be creative and
when you don’t have to be creative why
would you be creative because it
requires a lot of work and it is hard to
be creative sometimes
fortunately our ancestors did not have
mobile phones 200,000 years ago but we
do as four point nine three billion
people in the world on a mobile phone
these days next year to 2019 it is
supposed to grow up to five point zero
seven billion people owning an iPhone I
think this is the catastrophe because as
long as humanity keeps on making those
tools to keep us from being bored and to
keep us more busy and busy then we would
become much less creative as a society
because we would have less chances and
less people to be born every time and
every day and every day so as long as
science does not invent a way in which
we can have two brains want to be
stimulated and want to be bored then
that’s gonna be very very bad because as
a society creativity will vanish from
the world immediately so it looks like
any activity which includes your phone
in it for example is not very
stimulating but what is stimulating what
can actually be a major part in being
creative it’s not possible to just
staring out the window could stimulate
your brain for example memorizing the
same sentence over and over again can be
really really impactful and can really
help your brain develop into being more
creative that is because when we
memorize the same sentence over and over
again in a matter of seconds
minutes our brain will do it
automatically and then it will not
consider it a stimulation anymore then
it can just look for something else
which could be more stimulating because
that is how our brain works the same
thing would be if we start sorting takes
in a logarithm like sorting papers from
A to Z that is because I hope most of us
do know the alphabet and most of us do
not need to think if X comes before or
after E that way our brain will do it
very quickly automatically and do not
consider the stimulation any more
therefore it will look for new
stimulation
actually there was a very long research
made in Philadelphia where they took a
group of people and divided them into
two the first group would go into a room
and then they were told to find as many
as possible uses two a Styrofoam cup as
possible in a pretty limited time a
prett an activity would really requires
quite a lot of creativity so they did it
and that standard set off and they
walked out the room with the results
recorded immediately the second group
walked into the room and then first
though they were told they were told to
coffee phone numbers from a phone book
to a blank sheet of paper they did it
and then the sign timer started they had
the same limited time to find as many as
possible uses two extra foam cups as
possible and as they can they did it and
the standard set of the data group did
and the results were recorded not
surprisingly the second group did so
much better they found more than twice
more possible uses to start one cup as
the first one that is because they did a
boring activity before doing an activity
which requires a lot of creativity so
this is a pretty decisive proof that
boredom is actually one of the biggest
factors of creativity I’m gonna give you
15 seconds of pleasure now which I’m
gonna let you look at the sky or the
ceiling in this case and enjoy those 15
seconds of being warned I will start
please right now and I will stop when I
will count when I finish counting I can
if I counted it was around 15 seconds
and you know what I can actually
probably guess some of you have worked
like your finger started itching some of
you might have felt like this was a
total waste of 15 seconds of your life
some of you might have even felt a bit
sick and nauseous but I guarantee that
if you do it every day for 15 minutes
and not 15 seconds one day you will
definitely do something big because
thinking big is leading to doing
something big and I wanted to remember
what I said I want you to remember as
long as you can that boredom is not your
enemy
boredom is actually our biggest ally and
vorlon is also responsible for anything
that you see in this room it is
responsible for the conditions that a
society is just going up as a generation
to go please fight for burden to stay
alive because if we keep on making those
tools and as we make our society be less
tolerant to boil them and the
generations to go boredom will I want
they vanished from the world and that’s
not gonna be things we want to see and
we want to happen to our kids and their
kids and their kids and please remember
as the drunk a person said when you pet
elephant to boil them it gets
unbelievably interesting thank you
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