Boredom is essential for productivity | Cal Newport and Lex Fridman

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@ericfricke4512 3 жыл бұрын

Some days I just like to literally do nothing for a while. It feels like I can stretch time when I do that.

@LightTribe88 3 жыл бұрын

The brain normalizes stimuli when it's repeated, like the smell of a new house that fades in 20 minutes. Therfore to know something is stimulating, your brain needs something to compare it to, boredom, otherwise it gets averaged as noise. I feel that's exactly what the brain is doing most of the time in this regard: comparing to data points against each other to determine relevance.

@rockraven2159 3 жыл бұрын

Some of the best ideas happen while showering.

@DN-xl3kq 2 жыл бұрын

Some of the best ideas also happens while driving.

@codingsoftware_engineering8487 2 жыл бұрын

and also in washroom while unloading

@wdalts Жыл бұрын

Elon Musk, despite his name, showers every single day

@streetscienceofficial8675 Жыл бұрын

Or after Smoking dude

@exnihilonihilfit6316 Жыл бұрын

And I've killed even that time for myself by always listening to some podcast... 😢

@kent8728 Жыл бұрын

When boredom start to kick in within myself, I dive deeper within myself. I think about myself, how I react on the recent situation, how I approach that and this thing.. I am in business so I still do mental prep like expecting the worst scenarios.. etc. just sharing

@TheChessNeck 3 жыл бұрын

Huge fan of Cal. just bought his email book. he's one of the best authors anyone can read in my opinion. also Lex, can't wait to hear about you and David Goggins adventure.

@safamazumder6792 3 жыл бұрын

"you have to have some boredom in ur regular schedule or else your mind is going to form a Pavlovian connection between 'as soon as I feel boredom I get stimuli', and once it forms that connection it's never gonna be able to tolerate deep work... your mind better be used to the idea that sometimes you don't get stimuli bc otherwise u can't write for 3 hrs. it's just not gonna tolerate it." discomfort serves a very important purpose for a species. if something is really distressing, there's a reason for it. Pain is uncomfortable bc we need to worry abt injuries. Hunger is uncomfortable bc we need food to survive, Thirst is uncomfortable bc we need water to survive. Boredom is abt driving us toward productive action.

@RemotHuman 3 ай бұрын

thats a really helpful idea about boredom in your routine allowing you to do deep work

@domdubz7037 2 жыл бұрын

Double majored in mathematics because I was bored in business school during a quarantine with nothing to do.

@Life_of_Matthew Ай бұрын

Being bored, you get so much done.

@JEBavido 3 жыл бұрын

I hope he looks into how we treat boredom in our children. Different cultures have different expectations for what parents are supposed to do if their child is bored.

@MetaJustical 3 жыл бұрын

It's about you taking control and understanding, your own empowerment!. The physical, the mental and the spiritual. The question I would ask is... Why is the suppression so strong? I like the why adverb more than the others. Why gives you the substance of the story.

@MiCHELLEannSPIRESmasterminedAO 3 жыл бұрын

Suppression?...seems like only the self has the power to perceive or project powerlessness by an "other". Whom can suppress you, but you.🎮 This realization was a reality check on the tv series called world politics🙃😳👻🎓 #thequestIonmark #justasKING #loveubrother

@Motivational.Quotes10k Жыл бұрын

Basically I personally I wouldn’t had accepted Bordem generally in my life I wouldn’t be capable to accomplish anything. No pain no gain. Simple and true. Fast-food for the brain Junk news for the soul… Yes good comparison. Information is food for the mind

@thepunisherxxx6804 Жыл бұрын

Necessity drove innovation in our early history, not boredom. Living on Earth as a human for the vast majority of our history has been incredibly difficult. Most of your day your goal was survival and prepping to survive in the future. There was no time for boredom. Innovation came from necessity to make life easier to deal with. Necessity / Survival still is the strongest motivator, its just easier now to hit a comfort level you can live with.

@crowningglory6654 Жыл бұрын

“Action obesity” that’s new , you’re a legend

@AM2PMReviews 3 жыл бұрын

So people do avoidant contingencies because boredom is punishment.

@lranjits23 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. When I’m bored I’m watching all your videos I should probably stop so I can actually execute on something lol

@Stiffler206SiP Жыл бұрын

I used to eat once a day, & I definitely felt all-around better than I do now!..

@salimdag4178 3 жыл бұрын

Even thinking about something else makes me sick. You have to be generous in learning, working and producing. After all, you are spending your free time.

@celesteschacht8996 3 жыл бұрын

I listened to the whole show which was amazing. PLEASE send a clip of the section you will use with the run with David G. Please :-) i will also use it.

@152studio 11 ай бұрын

Hey Lex! I would like to talk with you. I'm Brazillian and I'm sure your content would help a lot of young guys here. If you like The idea, I'm available to work with you on something. Love your content 😁

@0xszander0 3 жыл бұрын

I tried fasting, but my body said hell no and I got huge intestinal cramps that wouldn't go away. So listening to my body, I started having my regular schedule again but replacing a lot of unhealthy foods in it instead. Fasting is often touted as this cure for everyone, but it really isn't. The key indeed is listening to your body.

@guyfromdubai 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah trying to fast when you dont eat healthy in the first place probably wont work

@0xszander0 3 жыл бұрын

@@guyfromdubai Well. It's not that I ate very unhealthy. But I realized maybe I didn't know as much about good nutrition as I thought I did. Eating much less carbs now and more healthy fats for instance. Never really ate sugar except for fruits.

@kattihatt 2 жыл бұрын

@@0xszander0 you still dont know much about nutrition if you think carbs are bad for you.

@0xszander0 2 жыл бұрын

@@kattihatt Nowhere did I say carbs are bad. In excess however they can be. And apparently I ate them in excess.

@QueenLover-j5i 5 ай бұрын

By YouSum Live 00:01:40 Boredom as a fundamental human drive. 00:02:11 Boredom drives us towards productive action. 00:02:30 Overloading with distractions leads to cognitive action obesity. 00:02:44 Ideal workload and tasks for optimal productivity. 00:03:47 Understanding the push and pull dynamic with hunger. 00:04:20 Intellectual activities as responses to boredom signals. 00:04:43 Modern attention engineered entertainment parallels junk food. 00:05:19 Fasting enhances focus, well-being, and self-awareness. 00:05:43 Fasting allows listening to the body's signals and responses. 00:06:20 Different food types affect body responses and well-being. 00:07:04 Fasting aids in understanding and moderating food intake. By YouSum Live

@TheShadyStudios 3 жыл бұрын

ur awesome, Lex

@bobsheehan5164 3 жыл бұрын

wow. that was really good

@cylonscotty7418 3 жыл бұрын

Starting from a principle is affirmed by people of experience to be a very reasonable procedure; I am willing to humor them, and so begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself to be so great a bore as to contradict me in this….Boredom is the root of all evil. -The Rotation Method

@alaricgoldkuhl155 3 жыл бұрын

ADHD Unite! I feel the same dude. The only way I was able to get into meditating was getting interested in watching the "thought machine". Whenever my kids say "I'm bored" I've said "only boring people get bored." I used to think it was lack of imagination. This is making me rethink this though.

@GodsNode 3 жыл бұрын

I disagree with his hypothesis. Boredom being painful is not the drive to be productive. One is productive when bored, like he said - being bored is the absence of stimuli, so a task that exists in a vacuum or exists in "boring land" is actually pretty interesting and motivating because it's the only thing to do.

@Maronicam Жыл бұрын

Action satisfies boredom, like food satisfies hunger. But You can eat candy or a good meal. And You can get addicted to sugar from candy. You can scroll social media or work. And You can get addicted to social media. But if You don't allow yourself to do the fast food actions (scrolling, daydreaming, chatting) You would feel more entertained by work alone.

@BecomingYourIdeal 10 ай бұрын

It’s impossible to exist without some from of stimuli

@DN-xl3kq 2 жыл бұрын

You thought boredom was productive, you should try procrastination.

@alvaromartinezmateu2175 Ай бұрын

Eating 2000 calories of cherries is impossible, you would have to eat barrels of cherries to get to 1000 calories

@pikiwiki 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if in this economy you score pretty high if you can afford to be bored

@9latinumStudioz 3 жыл бұрын

If you want to be successful, cut your cable.

@shaneofgames3825 3 жыл бұрын

What kind of cherries are you eating lex? 🍒

@carusoaugusto 3 жыл бұрын

unhealthy relationship with food = eating too many apples

@cubeincubes 3 жыл бұрын

i thirst for hunger

@vascoguerreiro341 Жыл бұрын

interesting

@m.j.golden4522 3 жыл бұрын

"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together." -Isaac Bashevis Singer Look Deep into Nature and you will Understand Everything Better - Albert Einstein "Our task must be to widen our circle of compassion, to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein "If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." - Albert Einstein "We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." William Ralph Inge The End Of The Human Race Will Be That It Will Eventually Die Of Civilization (Ralph Waldo Emerson)