u/hamzaelkabir

An underestimated method to improve your focus and grow your thinking is to embrace boredom.

The human mind is built in a way that makes it always look for stimuli to keep working. That’s precisely why we always stick to scrolling on social media, sometimes with no purpose, just to keep our minds busy on something.

According to some research, when we pick our phone with a social media app already open, an average of the first 40 seconds is spent on that app before getting to the real reason that made us pick up the phone at first. And that’s only one image of many that shows how we lose our focus if we get used to stimuli.

On the other hand, when we embrace boredom without trying to fight it by scrolling, our mind becomes sharper and focuses on what really matters. Because boredom means empty time, and with no social media at hand, our mind tries to replenish that free time with more thoughts.

That’s when brainstorming becomes more efficient, and that’s when we really visualize our real life, trying to solve our problems, thinking, and planning the next steps of our life.

By taking more breaks from social media, we experience this process more often, and we can then enter a phase I call the deep phase, involving boredom, thinking, and deep work.

An underestimated method to improve your focus and grow your thinking is to embrace boredom.

The human mind is built in a way that makes it always look for stimuli to keep working. That’s precisely why we always stick to scrolling on social media, sometimes with no purpose, just to keep our minds busy on something.

According to some research, when we pick our phone with a social media app already open, an average of the first 40 seconds is spent on that app before getting to the real reason that made us pick up the phone at first. And that’s only one image of many that shows how we lose our focus if we get used to stimuli.

On the other hand, when we embrace boredom without trying to fight it by scrolling, our mind becomes sharper and focuses on what really matters. Because boredom means empty time, and with no social media at hand, our mind tries to replenish that free time with more thoughts.

That’s when brainstorming becomes more efficient, and that’s when we really visualize our real life, trying to solve our problems, thinking, and planning the next steps of our life.

By taking more breaks from social media, we experience this process more often, and we can then enter a phase I call the deep phase, involving boredom, thinking, and deep work.

An underestimated method to improve your focus and grow your thinking is to embrace boredom.

The human mind is built in a way that makes it always look for stimuli to keep working. That’s precisely why we always stick to scrolling on social media, sometimes with no purpose, just to keep our minds busy on something.

According to some research, when we pick our phone with a social media app already open, an average of the first 40 seconds is spent on that app before getting to the real reason that made us pick up the phone at first. And that’s only one image of many that shows how we lose our focus if we get used to stimuli.

On the other hand, when we embrace boredom without trying to fight it by scrolling, our mind becomes sharper and focuses on what really matters. Because boredom means empty time, and with no social media at hand, our mind tries to replenish that free time with more thoughts.

That’s when brainstorming becomes more efficient, and that’s when we really visualize our real life, trying to solve our problems, thinking, and planning the next steps of our life.

By taking more breaks from social media, we experience this process more often, and we can then enter a phase I call the deep phase, involving boredom, thinking, and deep work.