How Boredom Can Lead to Your Most Brilliant Ideas | Manoush Zomorodi | TED

Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out and creativity.

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[key]

I deleted Facebook last year. Don't miss it at all. In the end I recognized how useless it was. Now I'm addicted more to YouTube though 😒

[daniels]

thats why i get all my best ideas while walking, in the shower or when trying to sleep

[mMoranw]

The best part about this ted talk is that she pointed out some other the problems with technology without saying its all terrible

[SuperManning]

One of my favorite TED talks! This is the kind of talk that I love, it's cutting edge interesting, very informative, and the best part is that it presents something I can actually do and get results-- as opposed to seeing how brilliant people are changing the world whilst I just nod and think to myself, "I could never do that." Thanks, Manoush, for being brilliant and bringing us along with you. Much appreciated!

[albarleta]

boredom leads to the dark side of youtube

[nethanvaartstra]

I literally felt so bored today I ended up searching it up online, and this is where i am.

[snowjae]

I deleted social media from my phone years ago, and I’ve worked hard towards my dreams and achieved them. I look back at my peers and they’re still absorbed online. It takes away so much from our lives and we don’t realize it

[TheAngryAstronomer]

I'm here because I'm trying not to be bored.

[krisrten]

After watching this video, I wanted to try this practice, because I spend a lot of time behind the phone, not even paying attention to it . I do not always have time to go somewhere and do something because of the fact that I waste time on emptiness, I stopped giving myself and my family enough time, which is very bad. In my opinion, this video is very informative and useful, especially for those who have problems with creativity and boredom. I believe that this program is a good method of combating boredom. For example, if I struggled with boredom, watching TV, sitting in social networks, now I want to change it and do something really useful!

[pincha]

Wow. The video was literally changing my mind of boredom. I thought that boredom is one of the most useless things in the World. But saw results of Boredom others and how it connects with creativity, I realized that have boredom isn’t bad and can really help me.
So after watching video, I decided to try to delete some apps and do something without my phone. I hope that at the end of this challenge I will find some useful for me.

[GHenooo]

Amazing talk! We all need to pay attention to this very carefully! I have been living like that for 2 years, and my life is completely changed! I am so much stress-free, conscious and so much life..

[scaplitee]

I have to watch this to do a project but I'm getting bored watching it.

[imudckl]

This video completely changed my mind. Being in a boredom is not so bad, and even very useful. You can plunge into your thoughts and come up with some useful ideas, instead of sitting on social networks, that spend our free time

[honeybdream]

My inner procrastinator needed to hear this 😸

[pollux]

Well, if you´re having depression, it´s sometimes better to distract yourself than to have time to think too much.

[omegaman]

You can tell her skill set learned on field during journalism came handy as evidenced from her eloquent, trendy and catchy style. Well given talk!! Thoroughly enjoyed.

[vastdimension]

This project actually sounds motivating, and the idea that the periods of time when you are bored to death can be a key for creativity is fascinating. It's kinda obvious tho, since when you can't sit still, you zone out of this world, imagining the big picture of situation. I noticed myself that when tasks that im doing are too repetitive, i tend to get more creative with the approach, and suddenly it becomes much easier to do them. I think that mind in such situations is basically desperate to escape dull and uneventful experience, trying to prevent this experience from happening again. Sometimes you don't need a source of information like a phone, you can just imagine something on your own.

[logane_pera]

This is just a comment in the void, but i've got a week of holidays left and i'm doing nothing all day except being on my phone, so i promise to myself i'll spend at least two hours without even looking at my phone and doing something productive instead, like i've been meaning to do for months. This presentation was really inspiring (but i'm not deleting tumblr or instagram sry i'm too weak)

[dariamineeva]

I was impressed with the video . I think the use of my phone is the way of avoiding the boredom . When I check my mail or text with friend , I lose concentration and fed up with just so. I will try to avoid using unnecessary applications and checking mails. I think that it helps me to be more creative

[LucasDanielSantoro]

OMG! This (4:02) is exactly what happend last sunday!!!! It was my first day completely without internet conection and that was exactly what I did. I planed 8 years ahead of my life, MBA, changing jobs and getting married included.