Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self

by Manoush Zomorodi

Nausea (also the title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1938 novel about philosophical boredom and my favorite book in high school—not sure what that says about me).

Kaufman calls dopamine “the mother of invention” and explains that because we have a limited amount of it, we must be judicious about choosing to spend it on “increasing our wonder and excitement for creating meaning and new things like art—or on Twitter.”

“Why is it that you think that technologies are any more distracting than your own mind or anything else in the world?”

Distraction doesn’t come from devices or people or things, they posited. It is an internal problem.