when was the last time you were bored bored as in you were staring at a wall and had no idea what to do and your brain had to reach deep within itself to come up with some solutions to your boredom and I'm sure you spent your whole life running away from that boredom and what's funny is you think that's a good thing the lack of boredom is what is stopping you from outperforming from improving moving from outworking everyone else don't worry I'll explain why but once we realize that boredom is good for us how do
we even get bored today there's everything at our fingertips all the time and there's never just one thing to do there are multiple things happening at the same time TV shooting Netflix into your eyes phone sending you tweets into your ears and am Amazon shipping boxes to your face from the moment you open your eyes to the moment you slip into REM sleep you don't have a single moment to be bored so let's get into it let me start by explaining why boredom is so important and then follow it up with giving you some tips
to use it like a weapon here are three essential benefits of boredom number one fasting for the brain when you remove the stimulus and are forced to just be it's like giving your brain room to breathe and cleanse itself from the noise when your brain is able to rest and doesn't have anything forced onto it it starts to explore within itself and cleanse away the inner noises and establish a healthier balance the brain then also is able to ponder things more deeply establishing stronger grounding for you on your beliefs what your priorities are what is
important to you and what is not giving your brain the opportunity to be bored is like giving it a reset and a level up at the same time giving it a good cleaning and then giving it a good exercise number two Creative Connections imagine if you were given food every time you were hungry it just was handed to you a plate with hot food you would lose the urge to go find food yourself most of your meals you would just sit and eat what is given to you but if the food pipeline stopped and you
found yourself hungry but nothing being given to you then you get up you get ready and you go outside and you explore you go in search of food and you end up discovering grocery stores restaurants other people Gardens Landscapes the clouds the sun you reach and you connect and this is the same thing your brain does in boredom it starts to explore and connect dots it organizes itself it imagines things that it just couldn't do when drowning in stimuli creativity explodes and you end up with new ideas new plans new resolutions to existing problems and
that is the power of your brain on boredom that is when you give yourself the opportunity to create some amazing things number three enhances your system the state of boredom is in a way an exercise gy for you it's like a dojo that you enter While others run away from it you enter to remove the world's noise and to sharpen and hone yourself it is the best environment to enhance your bodily system when bored you're able to flex your focus muscle hone in on things so mundane so overlooked without the distractions to pull you away
when bored you are able to more easily enter a state of meditation we focusing on yourself your breathing and just your state of being is done more naturally when bored you're able to be more attentive to your senses you discover more sensitive parts of your sense spectrums because the noise is not there to distract you away from it you start to appreciate the more subtleties of what your eyes see what your ears hear and what your hands touch and so on you'll be surprised as to how much you overlooked in your day-to-day experiences and everything
will start turning new and fresh to you there are many more benefits but I think we've established enough and now we can get into how to wield it to your benefit here are three essential ways to utilize boredom number one the stimulus fast at first you'll need to force yourself into some boredom what this means is that you have to plan and prepare for fasting from stimulus there are two things that you need for this a designated time and a designated place the time is straightforward and you just need to commit to a time and
a length of the fast it won't be worthwhile unless you do one for at least 1 hour so start with that for now 1 hour fasts and schedule it either on the weekend or another time that you have free then you need to designate the place this one requires more effort you'll need to make sure that there are no distractions around no TV no laptop or PC no other people around and not much else to do be honest with yourself and make it so you would definitely be bored if put in that place also very
important put your smartphone away and on silent thought I'd let you sneak that in h you're only cheating yourself my friend now that you got everything set just commit yeah you're going to be bored great that means success now embrace it and see where it takes you you have to commit to it for a while don't expect big Revelations from doing it only a few times you may not know it but you'll be silently acquiring all of the benefits we talked about earlier number two eliminate distractions generally throughout your home and your environment start to
eliminate distractions One By One The more you eliminate these things the easier it will be for you to practice boredom and slowly over time you will be removing noise and raction from your life enabling you to be more focused and more creative and give you the best chances of outperforming everyone by wielding the power of boredom throughout your day turn off the TV and when it comes time to redesign your interior just remove it all together get into the habit of putting your phone at a designated spot in the house don't carry it around with
you everywhere set up a dedicated space for your boredom practic and escape to there from time to time just let the transformation occur 1% a day and you'll be unrecognizable in no time number three redefine boredom the word boredom comes with it some baggage doesn't it it just automatically seems like a bad thing well this is where your advantage comes in while the world continues to look at it as a bad thing you embrace it as a good thing if you are a part of the few that redefines what boredom is and you use it
then you found a secret weapon this is generally true with many things in life when society and the masses follow some things blindly you find out how to use it to your advantage and you unlock a cheat code that's what we're focused about here on this channel we're trying to accumulate as many cheat codes as possible so we get to feel real good about life together and if you'd like to get some additional tips on enhancing your focus check out this video here
