I HATE the word bored! I learned this loathing when my kids were young. Every time (and I mean EVERY time) I asked them how they were doing or what was going on the answer was (you guessed it) “I’m BORED.” It was fingernails on a chalkboard for me.
Now for the “20-miles in the snow barefoot to school when I was young” story… I don’t know about you, but I never remember being bored as a kid. If I didn’t have something to do, I figured out something to do. If I didn’t like what I was doing, I’d choose to do something else. (Even if it involved matches and angry parents, though that story is not relevant… never mind… I plead the 5th.) I could never understand why my kids were bored, and more importantly why they chose to remain bored.
Boredom is actually a fantastic motivator and change agent. It’s a signal to yourself that you need a different way to get engaged, a different value proposition. Don’t accept being bored - in your career, in your Forum, in your life. Engage your creativity. Embrace change. Make a choice.
“Boredom: the desire for desires.” - Leo Tolstoy
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy Parker
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