you didn’t it
some of you were wondering what was
going on did I really lose control this
talk
did I really pay for that seriously
others would be like all right I’ve got
ten seconds to check my Instagram but
what if I told you that those past ten
seconds we’re the most creative moment
of your entire day what if while looking
at me standing in front of you saying
nothing you started to think about
something that has in a relationship
with the talking me right now because
you got bored what it what if you let
yourself wonder within your minds
because you got bored and what if I told
you that you got creative because you
got bored
well that is what’s your experience when
you’re daydreaming
and what’s great about daydreaming is
that it comes from nothing you were
simply there looking at me standing in
front of you and you started to think
and then you notice the rush of new
thoughts of new ideas of new perspective
why do we always have the greatest ideas
when we expect them the least I’m in the
shower and bang I have an epiphany
equals mc-squared
there’s a whole new ozone layer or I
finally found out how to finish my paper
due tomorrow you created the perfect
environment for something called the
default mode Network it’s when you’re
recalling for memories when you’re
planning for the future or even when
you’re daydreaming is the free
association of thoughts within your mind
and that only happened
when your mind is resting at that moment
particular parts of your brain are way
much more active than normal especially
in the frontal lobe which is the
important part for cognition memory and
learning so when you’re daydreaming
you’re not creating anything no but
you’re channeling spontaneous thoughts
about interesting problems there’s this
guy he’s a canoe tton who was one of the
most influential scientists of our world
at the time he was trying to understand
how gravity works he tried all the
possibilities all the theories and all
the experiences but he was still unable
to find the right explanation so one day
he took her woken apart and sat below an
apple tree and started to think to
daydream then he witness an apple
falling from that tree and that was his
epiphany that Apple was just the spark
that linked all his thoughts all his
work and all his ideas in a completely
new way that made sense to him he
finally found out the explanation to
gravity and that can only be possible
because he was daydreaming because his
mind was not focusing on something
specific so you have the opportunity to
live that Newton moment all of you but
here’s the thing there are no to-do
but instead think of a moment when you
feel inspired when you felt empowered it
can happen anytime anywhere when you’re
taking a shower
when you’re walking in a park or even
wanting waiting for the bus those
situations will maximize the opportunity
to leave that Newton moment live them
again and let your brain do the work so
we should embrace boredom you should
embrace boredom you should be happy to
be bored because it’s an incredible
source of creativity it gives us the
opportunity to have new ideas that could
disrupt our world to adopt a new
perspective to think outside of the box
or simply to consolidate our experiences
within our mind you simply have to let
but here’s the big challenge think about
all the ads we’re exposed to all the TV
shows were looking at think about all
the emails pop-ups notifications alarms
think about all the time we spent on
Facebook Instagram snapchat we’re
exposed to a constant stream of
information from our surrounding we’re
supposed to be efficient to be
productive to be open minded we’re
supposed to think about a thousand
things at the same time during a single
day but that ends up with us not having
the time to think we pick up our phones
more than 150 times during a single day
that is insane and most of the times for
doing nothing and it happened exactly at
the moment when we started to feel
boredom so we don’t have the opportunity
anymore to get bored or we don’t take it
and we fear
boredom and that’s killing our potential
of creativity our minds see boredom as
something that we should
avoid as much as possible with are we
gonna die from boredom
certainly not we think that being bored
makes us unproductive that we’re useless
in an extremely active society but there
is a study from the University of lund
shyer proving that boredom is an awesome
source of creativity and productivity
they selected two groups of people the
first one had to learn a phone number by
heart for 20 minutes the second one had
to copy that same number for 20 minutes
which was really boring and then the ask
booth group at the end of those 20
minutes to do something creative with a
simple glass of water well the second
group found way much more possibilities
than the first one see here we’re not
judging the quality of the work but
we’re looking at the number of
possibilities they found out from a
single glass of water and that is
so boredom is productive in a way it
gives us the opportunity to have new
experiences to have new ideas that could
disrupt our world to think outside of
the box and simply to adopt a new
perspective so I’m not calling for a
massive Facebook suicide or a total
banishment of all the ads because that
doesn’t work but I ask yourself why why
do we fear boredom why did you fear
boredom why do you pick up your phone
why are you checking your Facebook every
two minutes why do you look at the TV
and I can guarantee you that the answer
to that question will have a tremendous
impact in your life
thank you you