I've been inside all day today so I literally have not gone outside yet I'm
gonna go for a swim at the pool here at the park and then when I get back I want
to talk a little bit about boredom but first let's go to the pool
nice whole pool to myself it's so cold why would it be this cold well I did the
Great Lakes in like early spring so I guess compared to that it's not that bad
here we go
I have been swimming for exercise in a while probably since I was like on swim
team in middle school yeah yeah that's probably wise
these chairs over here specifically designed for relaxation after a good
pool workout very cold alright who's terrible idea
was it to this terrible idea was it to go swimming on one of the coldest days
this week geez and that water so cold but uh that's a good hour in the pool
got a little worked out in about to go hit the showers and then back to making
videos excited alright so let's talk about boredom now do you remember this I
think I've showed you this before it says creativity is sparked by true
boredom I believe when I originally heard that quote it said creativity is
sparked by boredom I added the true into that so why I added the true is because
in my opinion there's two types of boredom the first type of boredom is
just your normal 2017 boredom that's where you pull out your phone as soon as
you feel a little bit of discontent and you go ahead and you you open up that
tinder app and you you just start swiping and you hope you could find a
relationship so you can get somebody who will be bored with you the second type
of boredom is that boredom you felt when you were in elementary school when
you're hanging out with your group of four friends and you don't have anything
to do so what do you do you have nothing to do you invent a game you go out into
the woods and you just clear trees and create a paintball field and then you
have a paintball field for the next five years that you play on almost every day
you you create a game like jailbreak you use the green box in your neighborhood
as the jail and you guys hide around the neighborhood and you set imaginary
limits that is the type of boredom that I'm talking
about that's the type of boredom that truly breeds creativity that's why I try
as much as possible to truly be bored in my day and that's what gives me the
creative juice to come up with these videos that I present to you every
single day that's the reason that I'm able to present those videos to you it's
because every time I catch myself scrolling through Facebook or some type
of social media feed relentlessly and mindlessly I place my phone on the
ground and I just say you need to go do something else
I usually go over my whiteboard on my refrigerator and I just start
brainstorming brainstorming ideas maybe brainstorming different angles that I
can shoot from or just making a plan for the rest of that day or the next day or
the video after that or the video after that or the video after that there's no
end I see friends and family and acquaintances point Asit acquaintances
acquaintances on social media just always saying I'm so bored right now or
binge watching 35 episodes of a Netflix show and talking about how bored they
are I don't have any problem with boredom I think boredom is amazing
I think the problem is that people think what they're experiencing is boredom but
in reality what they're experiencing is discontent and because they're
discontent they're trying to fill that void with
something in today's day and age that's something like social media scrolling
relentlessly through their Facebook feed or Instagram feed or watching every
single snapchat story of people they don't even care about if they were
putting that time towards something that they truly enjoyed and that they were
passionate about they would feel a much larger feeling of fulfillment then at
the end of the day when you've only done Facebook or you've only done Instagram I
am definitely not perfect I had been in that same place just even a year ago
even three months ago I was worse than I am now a year ago you would catch me
doing the same thing as everybody else playing video games for countless hours
scrolling through Facebook feeds for countless hours at work at home anywhere
that I could and then I realized what I was doing and once you realize that what
you're doing isn't fulfilling you that's when you know that you need to change
and for some people that may never happen but for a lot of people I feel
like that's happened and they're not acknowledging it so I challenge you to
just place your phone on the ground when you realize that you're mindlessly
scrolling now if you're looking at something on Facebook and you're
enjoying it that's one thing but if you're mindlessly scrolling through
articles and people's statuses and just looking at memes just for days and days
on end I challenge you to find something else that you're passionate about and
chase that instead maybe take a certain amount of time off of your phone
altogether I personally took the social media apps on my phone I took them off
the home page so at least I would have to take that one extra step to go into
my apps and define the app rather than just knowing exactly where to click my
finger and getting to my social media I think you just need to be careful about
how much you're consuming because I always try to even out how much I'm
consuming and how much I'm creating I like to be creating more than I'm
consuming and if I ever catch myself consuming too much and not creating I
try to figure out a way to flip that to flip that scale back so that I'm feeling
fulfilled again and feeling passionate about what I'm doing so in the comments
below if you have something that helps you empower you to create rather than
consume let everybody you know I'm sure it would be super helpful I would love
to hear it I'm sure a ton of other people would love to hear it
and thanks for listening to my little rant today guys on boredom if you're not
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