the ability to get bored

I am a victim of this myself, I hardly allow myself the time to get bored, and it is not alright.

If you don't get bored, you never really take any initiative and life gets stuck in the same loop.

You wake up, do work assigned, then doom scroll, you fill up the void in your day with doom scrolling, Instagram reels, Youtube shorts, that app, this app. And boom your day ends.

That's draining, your brain is filled with a thousand idiotic reels, somebody is cooking, somebody is dancing, somebody's dog is staring at the camera with an unusual glaze, the dopamine hits on every reel, you laugh at some, you cry at some, the clock's ticking and boom you have watched 60 reels in an hour and you can't stop. Your day's gone.

And I am not here to preach you stuff, I have been a victim to this myself, wake up, do work, take a break, will scroll for 5 minutes, and then I know an hour has passed, and now I don't have the energy to do anything.

You need to realize your brain does not have an unlimited supply of attention, it is not powered by nuclear fuel, it has its limits. So you need to use it wisely and judiciously, to the best of its ability to lead a good life.

Break that cycle, uninstall that app, go out, meet friends, even better be productive. The world today has made it very easy to learn anything, finance, accounting, development, carpentry whatever.

Learn whatever moves the needle, unless you want to be a vagabond and just lie around and feed on somebody else's money. Even that's fine, it's about what your conscience allows, and if it finds nothing wrong in it, do that too. We are all different and we should be able to live as we deem fit.

But yeah giving away time to an app is just not done, we all share a finite time on earth, make it worthwhile. I know it's tough, some of the best minds on earth engineer such distractions, and it's very tough to step away, but you gotta do it, if not for anybody else, just for yourself.

So now what? You have free time, what to do now? Get bored, like seriously, get bored. It's your inability to get bored that is being targeted, we all become zombies, constantly fiddling with phones. It's only when you get bored, does your brain get activated to think to fill the void, just don't do anything, get bored and your thinking lab gets activated, maybe a new career, a new project, a new obsession, a new direction and how to go about achieving that.

It's only when you zoom out, do you see the big picture, make sure it's worth watching.