How technology has

evaporated Boredom

Boredom creates
creativity
Being in a state of Boredom isn’t
exactly fun, however it is important.
Being in a state of boredom creates
important development for the brain.
When we are bored the brain tells us
to do something which is where we
find creative things to make our brains
come into focus mode. With our
phones we have evaporated boredom
because when we are bored we run
back to our phones and social media
and mindlessly scroll on tik tok or
instagram.
Ellis Paul Torrance was an American
Psychologist in the 1950’s and noticed that
teachers preferred book smart kids and didn’t
like the highly energetic, big idea, mad scientist
kids. The school system deemed these types
of kids bad, but Torrance saw something else.
In a real world problem booksmart kids would
try to find the answer in a book while the other
kids would use creativity to solve it. He then
made a study and asked kids how they would
make improvements to a toy. He then followed
those kids up until he died and found that the
kids with the most creative ideas were the most
successful. It has also been determined that
creativity is much better for predicting success
than IQ tests. A lot of these “Disruptive
students ended up being business owners or in
very high paying jobs.
The brain
Our brains work just like muscles. When
we work out our muscles we eventually
tire them out after doing a set of
repetitions. The brain works the same
exact way. On average, we spend around
11 hours and 6 minutes looking at our
smartphones, computers or TV’s per day.
This all comes at a cost for our brains. All
this time we spend, our brain is in focus
mode. When our brains are engaged in
focus mode we exert an extraordinary
amount of effort. We live most of our life
stressing our brains out and overworking
it. This has led to more depression in kids,
and has attributed to social anxiety or
With our collective lack of boredom we are reaching extreme mental
awkwardness.
fatigue. Screen based media is causing us to become increasingly picky,
impatient, distracted and demanding. With our heads buried in our phones,
computers and other media devices, we are missing the beauty in life by
not being present in nature.