Boredom leads to daydreaming, which is associated with creative epiphanies. We actually don’t do enough daydreaming these days, the psychologist Sandi Mann says, because “we try to extinguish every moment of boredom in our lives with mobile devices.”43 (It’s “like eating junk food,” she adds.)
We need to stop using our phones when we feel bored. We just have to feel bored from time to time to make sure that we are having moments of epiphany. These days we don’t let our mind wander off into the unknown like before. That is why there are very less ideas we have these days.
