For me, I think I have become more dependent on accidental boredom to get deeper thoughts and ideas. Recently, it feels like the universe wants to answer your deepest questions only after you take the trash out.

maybe it’s a reward for doing the little things that gets us answers for the bigger deeper things.

not sure but this was fun.🤩

YoLoFoMo

That actually makes a lot of sense — maybe boredom didn’t disappear, it just migrated into mundane tasks.

Showers, dishwashing, walking, even those random “nothing” moments are still giving the brain a kind of idle lane to wander.

What’s more fascinating is your last point: 

if stillness is now a superpower, are we evolving into better thinkers… or just becoming dependent on accidental boredom to do the deep work for us?

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We’re slowly forgetting how to be bored — and that might be changin how we think

hasherstacker

That actually makes a lot of sense — maybe boredom didn’t disappear, it just migrated into mundane tasks.

Showers, dishwashing, walking, even those random “nothing” moments are still giving the brain a kind of idle lane to wander.

What’s more fascinating is your last point: *if stillness is now a superpower, are we evolving into better thinkers… or just becoming dependent on accidental boredom to do the deep work for us?*