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I'm bored, what do I do?

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59 points by dmcgill50 7 years ago · 7 comments

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molly0 7 years ago

”Switching from consumption to production started to break the thick barrier of habit I had formed in the past.”

What works for me is consusly switching from general consumption of social media into consumption of content targetet towards creators. Then I found it easier to come up with something to do.

tickerticker 7 years ago

With kids, you have to allow boredom to happen so that they will create ways to entertain themselves......like making toys out of leftover boxes, etc. I should limit the crossword puzzles I do each day to practice what I preach.

apolymath 7 years ago

I spend 12+ hours a day writing code for open source projects that I started, many of which are very innovative projects. I spend my time learning, documenting everything I do, building tools that I want to use so that I can build other tools with those tools. If you are bored, it is because you have a sense of entitlement. "The world exists to entertain me", you may think. "I exist to entertain the world" is how you should be thinking.

perculis 7 years ago

Great post. I’ve been working hard to encourage my children to understand this very concept.

rdiddly 7 years ago

I think it's probably pretty reasonable to refer to most humans as being at least somewhat self-centered. Which implies: There's nothing quite so interesting as the thing you do yourself!

ghosterrific 7 years ago

Masturbate furiously

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