Boredom is a guardian of your time. It's good to have a tolerance for acute boredom. If you're refreshing your feed during every scrap of free time, it's not great for your attentional ecosystem.

Chronic boredom though, chronic boredom is telling you something important. That your work is not aligned with your purpose. That you have stayed in a comfort zone too long and are going stale.

Boredom tells you this is happening and it gives you pain so you will take the message seriously.

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I used to think my inability to tolerate chronic boredom was a character flaw, some species of laziness or avoidance.

Over the decades it has taken for me to learn how to manage my attention, I have come to respect, even revere boredom as a sort of demonic ally.

Boredom is unbearable, but, like, that's its job.

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So, thank you.

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