I used to be very bored as a teenager. I was bored almost all the time.
I was not bored very much as a child. I found everything terribly fascinating, and spent a lot of my time reading and learning. My early childhood was a period of great personal growth for me.
I started to get comfortable and complacent and my Hunger diminished. Boredom began to set in. I felt like I’d already learnt most of what I needed to know, and I had already developed the skills necessary to find out whatever it is that I might need to know subsequently, so there didn’t seem much point in doing anything. I was bored.
I was bored because I lacked vision, and purpose. (2014: Is this necessarily true? Did I have vision and purpose as a child? No. Then?) I didn’t know what I want. When you don’t know what you want, when you don’t know what you want to work towards, when you don’t have some sort of purpose that you’ve defined for yourself, you will be mind-numbingly bored.
After years of chronic boredom- temporarily alleviated by the typical adolescent experimentation- I decided to confront it. I decided that I wanted to do things that I was not yet capable of doing, and in doing so I had inadvertently set myself on a course.
I have never been bored since. I have gotten distracted, and I continue to get distracted, which is something I’d like to work on- but I have never been bored.
Find purpose. Demolish boredom. What do you want your life’s work to be? Have a rough idea, and dive into it. Surround yourself with it. Never be bored again.
PS: If you really have absolutely no idea what you want to do, start by tracking your life. Set aside 5 minutes at the beginning, middle and end of each day to write down what you did so far. What did you eat, how much did you spend, who did you meet, what did you read? It will seem mundane and pointless when you start, but before you know it you’ll have a staggering amount of information about yourself that you are usually oblivious to, and patterns become obvious.
Demolish boredom.
I used to be very bored as a teenager. I was bored almost all the time.
I was not bored very much as a child. I found everything terribly fascinating, and spent a lot of my time reading and learning. My early childhood was a period of great personal growth for me.
I started to get comfortable and complacent and my Hunger diminished. Boredom began to set in. I felt like I’d already learnt most of what I needed to know, and I had already developed the skills necessary to find out whatever it is that I might need to know subsequently, so there didn’t seem much point in doing anything. I was bored.
I was bored because I lacked vision, and purpose. (2014: Is this necessarily true? Did I have vision and purpose as a child? No. Then?) I didn’t know what I want. When you don’t know what you want, when you don’t know what you want to work towards, when you don’t have some sort of purpose that you’ve defined for yourself, you will be mind-numbingly bored.
After years of chronic boredom- temporarily alleviated by the typical adolescent experimentation- I decided to confront it. I decided that I wanted to do things that I was not yet capable of doing, and in doing so I had inadvertently set myself on a course.
I have never been bored since. I have gotten distracted, and I continue to get distracted, which is something I’d like to work on- but I have never been bored.
Find purpose. Demolish boredom. What do you want your life’s work to be? Have a rough idea, and dive into it. Surround yourself with it. Never be bored again.
PS: If you really have absolutely no idea what you want to do, start by tracking your life. Set aside 5 minutes at the beginning, middle and end of each day to write down what you did so far. What did you eat, how much did you spend, who did you meet, what did you read? It will seem mundane and pointless when you start, but before you know it you’ll have a staggering amount of information about yourself that you are usually oblivious to, and patterns become obvious.