How Boredom Can Lead to Your Most Brilliant Ideas | Manoush Zomorodi | TED
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- Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out and creativity.
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I deleted Facebook last year. Don't miss it at all. In the end I recognized how useless it was. Now I'm addicted more to RUclips though 😒
Ariana same I deleted all my social media except RUclips tho
Ariana : Ditto!
Me too 😩
Ariana Hahaha
Ariana same!
thats why i get all my best ideas while walking, in the shower or when trying to sleep
Yea i do that sometimes too but I don’t walk lol
I got my best ideas while in shower😁
One of my favorite TED talks! This is the kind of talk that I love, it's cutting edge interesting, very informative, and the best part is that it presents something I can actually do and get results-- as opposed to seeing how brilliant people are changing the world whilst I just nod and think to myself, "I could never do that." Thanks, Manoush, for being brilliant and bringing us along with you. Much appreciated!
boredom leads to the dark side of youtube
If you're looking for something to do, and at the same time want MORE confidence, social aptitude, and personal capability, *GO TO MY CHANNEL!* I help people with all that, and can help ya with boredom too! lol. appreciate ya!
The sad thing is how right you are.
what is this dark side you speak of?
Brian Leneblowtrees The "Important Videos Playlist"
Nothing is true, Everything is Permitted
The best part about this ted talk is that she pointed out some other the problems with technology without saying its all terrible
Totally agree. The "Tool not taskmaster" comment really landed with me.
After watching this video, I wanted to try this practice, because I spend a lot of time behind the phone, not even paying attention to it . I do not always have time to go somewhere and do something because of the fact that I waste time on emptiness, I stopped giving myself and my family enough time, which is very bad. In my opinion,this video is very informative and useful, especially for those who have problems with creativity and boredom. I believe that this program is a good method of combating boredom. For example, if I struggled with boredom,watching TV, sitting in social networks, now I want to change it and do something really useful!
I have to watch this to do a project but I'm getting bored watching it.
Same
I'm here because I'm trying not to be bored.
im here because i want to change
ArgusFPV
I'm here Cuz I wanna see people like hot in the comments section
I'm here b/c "boredom" truly led to my best ideas :D
But that's the point! Try being bored sometime.
Whose here cuz a teacher told them to watch this video via homework???
Wow. The video was literally changing my mind of boredom. I thought that boredom is one of the most useless things in the World. But saw results of Boredom others and how it connects with creativity, I realized that have boredom isn’t bad and can really help me.
So after watching video, I decided to try to delete some apps and do something without my phone. I hope that at the end of this challenge I will find some useful for me.
"Delete the app that you're most addicted to"
*Deletes youtube and stop watching the video*
Exactly
You can't delete RUclips 🙄
yo i dont think you can deate youtube
@@optimisticcreature7960 you cant delte youtube.
Then how did you comment??
Amazing talk! We all need to pay attention to this very carefully! I have been living like that for 2 years, and my life is completely changed! I am so much stress-free, conscious and so much life..
This video completely changed my mind. Being in a boredom is not so bad, and even very useful. You can plunge into your thoughts and come up with some useful ideas, instead of sitting on social networks, that spend our free time
Well, if you´re having depression, it´s sometimes better to distract yourself than to have time to think too much.
I would agree but checking your phone probably doesn't do nearly enough to distract yourself this is mainly talking about getting rid of time taking quick checks that dont help
But you shouldn't check your phone. Instead you should do exercise
Sim1234 check "Noah Elkrief's" RUclips videos on depression. I guarantee you won't have depression anymore. He also has videos on many other topics like anxiety, anger, you name it!
your actualy hurting people telling them that watching some youtube videos will cure there depression if the really have it is selling them on something that wont help if someone really has depression they shouldent be so easaly cured.
maxybaer123 he's not the typical wishful thinking, "just think positve" guy. Just check him out.
My inner procrastinator needed to hear this 😸
I literally felt so bored today I ended up searching it up online, and this is where i am.
This project actually sounds motivating, and the idea that the periods of time when you are bored to death can be a key for creativity is fascinating. It's kinda obvious tho, since when you can't sit still, you zone out of this world, imagining the big picture of situation. I noticed myself that when tasks that im doing are too repetitive, i tend to get more creative with the approach, and suddenly it becomes much easier to do them. I think that mind in such situations is basically desperate to escape dull and uneventful experience, trying to prevent this experience from happening again. Sometimes you don't need a source of information like a phone, you can just imagine something on your own.
I deleted social media from my phone years ago, and I’ve worked hard towards my dreams and achieved them. I look back at my peers and they’re still absorbed online. It takes away so much from our lives and we don’t realize it
OMG! This (4:02) is exactly what happend last sunday!!!! It was my first day completely without internet conection and that was exactly what I did. I planed 8 years ahead of my life, MBA, changing jobs and getting married included.
You can tell her skill set learned on field during journalism came handy as evidenced from her eloquent, trendy and catchy style. Well given talk!! Thoroughly enjoyed.
This is just a comment in the void, but i've got a week of holidays left and i'm doing nothing all day except being on my phone, so i promise to myself i'll spend at least two hours without even looking at my phone and doing something productive instead, like i've been meaning to do for months. This presentation was really inspiring (but i'm not deleting tumblr or instagram sry i'm too weak)
7:17 You gotta pump those numbers up those are rookie numbers
My highest screen time is 16hours
I was impressed with the video . I think the use of my phone is the way of avoiding the boredom . When I check my mail or text with friend , I lose concentration and fed up with just so. I will try to avoid using unnecessary applications and checking mails. I think that it helps me to be more creative
I don't think boredom is the right focus here, rather I think its just that being constantly immersed in internet content consumes our mind. Nowadays we have so much content; it serves as entertainment but also as distractions. A video completely consumes your attention for the time that you watch it and you're likely going to be unable to think about anything else. Being able to take yourself off it ,however, lets you start to think about a million other things. I think that's what is happening when you walk the dog, take a shower, sit on the balcony. You don't have to be bored, just aware.
HelpfulJjam it can also serve as knowledge
Thank you! Yea I don’t like this whole idea of being bored, rather be present and self-aware
I thought I was the only one that compared the birth of my child to iPhone release dates.
PowahSlap Entertainmint lol, I just saw your comment on the new vox video about Fahrenheit
Bored people should spend their time learning the metric system.
Nope there are others as sad as yourself.
LOL I just saw you on a "It's okay to be smart" video
Sept 12th born here :D
It's funny because doing nothing is exactly what I do to avoid being productive.
I'd go walk for 2 hours, do some chores or mundane tasks as a way to procrastinate.
So as much as I can understand that constant connectivity can be bad I can't really agree with "when you're doing nothing you're actually being your most productive".
Because staring at the window 8 hours a day thinking about life won't get me a job, it'll just get me a depression.
You went walking for two hours, it's call exercising. I don't think sitting on the coach is burning anything.
It's about creating ideas.
I am absolutely agree with Manous. Boredom is a typical sense for a lot of people, but I feel myself very productive after a period of boredom. The amount of time that we spend in the Internet is enormous and we should try to do something with this. All that we should do is to reduce the time when we surf the net and if you have really nothing to do than you should simply have a rest. We should change our attitude to boredom and understand that it is not bad for us
She's so charismatic, i love it
Waoooo it's an amazing speaking. Sometimes, I feel very strange because I haven't social media apps in my cell, I haven't social media counts, I take times to leave my cell very away to me, I enjoy a meeting to much when I pay attention and I am pausing other activities. Also I haven't active notifications and I can't answer all the time Whatsapp because I am busy in other things. People angry with me for that but I don't understand why they don't use the calls. If I can't answer Whatsapp immediately people can't stand it. It seems that everybody in this times need all people in a kind of 'Multitasking mod' and with their cellphones in their hands ever. World need listen to you and live this project "boring and brilliant"
the only exception is school...
Because students are not given autonomy. They know they can't come up with ideas and pursue them, they're boxed in to be programmed as obedient ISO-norm worker slaves.
+Adrian As a HS teacher I could not agree more!
we should reprogram them to fix earth now....and make me coffee
It's an interesting thought that creativity cannot exist without boredom 😮 certainly there is a difference when using social media as a tool rather than mindlessly scrolling through the feed but for the most part it's by being away from our phones and in a "default state" that we begin to generate ideas!
Super important information. Hope everyone gets it.
beliefless dogmasless Because too many people are walking around with their heads down on their phones doing nothing. On social network but don't socialize with those around them in reality.
I don’t exactly know why, but I just suddenly started crying. The internet, my IPad, my Phone, I’ve been so vicious to them. And this truly inspired me to improve. To know that everything’s ok. That I have to start trying.
Digital literacy.......
Please please include this in our education system....
Children are our future and they need to know how to self-regulate
I totally agree with the speaker, as it has been my permanent problem for last 2 years. Social networks grab all our free time, that we can spend on ourselves or our family and friends. Checking mails and notifications became some kind of disease nowadays. So the challenge offered by speaker seems hard but necessary for a lot of us. In this case I would try to avoid checking my phone all the time.
It's not just about boredom. It's about having impulse control and being able to delay gratification. A whole generation is growing up without that and it will cause problems in society, like higher crime. People are addicted to contact, to not be alone with their thoughts. They're often not even used to being alone with their own thoughts and that's why they experience boredom when they're not addictively connecting to others. There's probably not a lot going on in there when you're connected to others like that all the time, unless you know to unplug and read a book, or something. Thinking for yourself is a skill you won't develop if you're never challenged to do it (great tool to control the masses, by the way). People are walking around with a brain on Facebook and it's not making them better people. Impulse control, for instance, would stop people from checking their phones while driving and would have as a direct result less traffic accidents and less animals killed on the road. But you only care about your instant gratification fix, so you risk the life of others, just to check your social media. It's pathetic, selfish, infantile behavior. The zombie apocalypse is already here, brought to you by the fomo junkies. Nothing funny about that behavior of yours, lady, just very very sad.
NCL kinda agreeing although that was kinda agressive
not everyone in the computer generations has impulse control problems I just have a problem with this opinion because it implies that phones and computers are some evil world destroyer
+Sara Sihvo Kinda aggressive? NCL needs to take a deep breath, count backwards from ten, then maybe play a couple of rounds of Candy Crush to calm down. Like you, I agree with NCL's premise, but it seems as if NCL has already succumbed to the dreaded RUclips Attack Syndrom, which causes normal speech to be converted into a sort of vitriol laced with a superiority complex. And the saddest part is that many of these folks carry on for years without even knowing they have contracted such a malady, all the while inciting more people into adopting an equally aggressive nature by responding to their invectives. When seated at a keyboard and safely posting under a pseudonym, they are in a state of constant readiness to pounce on the first person that crosses their path. Sadly, I am confident that my words will be summarily dismissed as nonsense and interpreted as my own form of ranting for which I will become the new target, so I'll just shut up now.
For me boredom often leads to existential crisis
I liked this video there were mentioned some interesting things about boredom. For me, boredom isn’t a bad thing. I think it improve my imagination and gives me a time to spend with benefits.
This video changed my mind about boredom. I totally agree with the speaker. I also think that uninteresting tasks can become quiet inspiring. Most of my best ideas come to my mind when I have nothing to do or when I am waiting for something. So, personally, i will try to challenge myself to spend less time on my phone and try to see if it actually helps me get more creative!
New Challenge: Do this during quaratine
People are always busy, sometimes need a rest. Sometimes it can be boring about such a break, but in such a short or long time, you can find other important things, and you can have a chance to look at the world wide with your mind. The feeling of boredom is also one of the many emotions of a person, and this feeling is also a necessary emotion for a person. This is boring, and some people have a lifetime study, and they can give you an opportunity to think about the most fundamental problems.
i use almost 20 mins everyday to watch ted x talks but its worth it!
Any innovation is created for knowledge. you thinking since 1980, 1990. and 2000. so time of Revolutionary power, social communication and the hearts of all
Ted talks and looks like spoken poetry. So much inflection and up and down cadence. ACTING!
My idea of creativity = freedom of no limits and the drawing board.
Imagine a group of extremely bored people that have everything in their life + too much freedom and knowledge + drawing board, meet each other.
This would lead to some ultra crazy invention. The new generation of "philosophers". Haha ! 😁
I have known for a while that walking, biking, or even jogging long distances with no entertainment except the scenery is great for creativity. However, I do not consider that "boredom." I consider that letting your mind become disengaged, and I suspect the chemical changes in your body from exercise help the process. "Boredom" is when you're stuck at your great-aunt's house with no WiFi and a bunch of ambling anecdotes that you've already heard a million times.
I have found this very satisfying. I my self found that many of my best ideas came when I was really bored.
Absolutely right. Digital distractions rot the mind. You're better off alone with your own thoughts.
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt! (I really enjoyed this, thank you!)
This video shows an interesting perspective on 'boredom' and how it allows our minds to reach for creativity.
Y’all average 2 hours on your phone? I average 8 hours
I average 14, lol
I did this of my own volition a few years back. I not only deleted apps, but I also stopped using my phone on the toilet and stopped watching TV/RUclips while eating. The difference is amazing, very easy to slip back into bad habits, I have to continually check myself.
WHY NOBODY ON AUDIENCE LAUGHS ON YOUR JOKES IM FEEL BAD UGHHHH
It’s a real audience, not a fake one
Hahahhahahhhhaahaa oh my God your so right hahahahahaha you nailed it bro!! I m happy now.
I gave up tv, social media, and friendships about 7 years ago. After dinner, I “unplug” and force myself to boredom. I started journaling business ideas and other things. My imagination has increased exponentially.
One thing this lecture brought up that it was very interesting. She said that this generation that has never not been connected lack creativity... does that mean that lately peoples retrograde thinking and behaviour towards problems in the world are partially caused by too much time in their phones and social (internet) media?
Such a misleading title. Title should have been “I hate smartphones because I don’t know how to use them for my own good”.
I watched it because I agree that creativity comes from the subconscious. I was disappointed that Ms. Zomorodi spent the entire time bashing smart phones. What was her point? You can only get creative without a smart phone? or you can't get creative on a smart phone? I have news for Ms. Zomorodi "You are either prejudiced against smartphones or never learned to use your smart phone for creativity". I can show sketches, quotes and ideas that I made on my smart phone. My smartphone keeps my mind, body & soul healthy because that is how I choose to use it. Technology is a tool. Don't villanize the tool because all you do on your smartphone is play Candy Crush or Facebook. That is completely on you. Your smartphone use is a mirror to your soul.
This is the biggest realization I’ve had. Boredom and the urge to not go insane leads me to some pretty fun ideas and just being me.
Manoush Zomorodi is amazing and brilliant ❤️
Radical idea: Go for a brief walk outside, but without your phone (really, try it - you will be surprised).
I enjoy being bored after completing my PhD! I never take it for granted anymore!
Indeed a healthy talk to address the growing hyperactivity and overstimulation in present generation.
Regards from Pakistan. 🇵🇰
best ted talk ever !!
It is sad to think that before we use technology as much as we are now, boredom was just boredom and things that we did to entertain ourselves were seen as normal things.. But nowadays even smallest things that you do when you are not on the phone can be counted as creativity.. That is just how much our lives has been shifting because of this new habit
I'm only here cause we need to watch it for homework
Really me too
Same here
This is precisely why we have so many spoiled, entitled, ignorant, selfish young people in the world today. They constantly have their nose in a screen. I doubt any of them has ever seen a hummingbird in real life, or noticed the beautiful blooms of a lavender bush. I doubt they even register things like "scent" while on their phones. I have gotten almost as bad; this video has inspired me to change!
The world is a beautiful, amazing place. Remember to look up from your phone once in a while and see the sunshine!!!
Love it. Thank you. I will take some steps to cut down on time wasting on social media apps and take more time to think and create.
Being bored is extremely useful all of what she had said is true
I use to get so bored so often one time I just sat and began crying about it. I didn't have any friends, school, or job, so every day was extremely boring
4:20 Wait, you can curse on TED? I have so much more respect for it now.
notice how it's at 420 lol
@@emototheextremo1021 ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ
Huh
I agree.
Because of boredom which I feel when I have no Internet connection or no friend to speak with, I start to walk around in my home or out side and SEARCH for problems and imperfections in myself or in my real world, then I open my smartphone and open the note and write all the problems which I face and realize, then I THINK about all the possible solutions and write them in the note.
I consider many of the solutions which I made as creative and unique solutions; which just need to be applied.
This video is really underrated
I enjoyed watching this on my phone.
Its ironic im on my phone right now
I did not delete social media apps, but I did stop all the notifications. Since then as my phone''s led indicator rarely blinks (when having missed calls or SMS). I am having a really productive time at work. You do need social media in today's society, so what you ought to do is disable the notifications.
Amazing talk! It would be interesting doing the same experiment in 2024
nice advert for iphone ... still getting s8+
Shes so charismatic
My best friend once told me, "You're boring."
That year, I tried to be entertaining, talkative. Now I wish I hadn't done that. It wasn't the best version of me, though the jokes were good.
Boredom isn't lethal or a danger to life. Our minds love to mess around and fly from one thing/thought to another. We love those things which help our imagination fly away: TV, internet, funny persons are major examples.
But boredom is good for mind. It lets the brain focus, makes us closer to reality. Some research has been done.
Yes, consciousness is a heavy burden. And, entertainment helps in relaxing us. But it can't be the permanent state of mind, which we are trying.
It's a bit easy for other animals: all they got to do is survive (eat, breed and stay alive). Survival ain't easy, and most of their time is spent in that.
But us? Plenty of us don't have to face fatal fights to survive. Those who are in survival mode have no time for boredom.
And those who are bored indicates that they have survived, they got resources and now they don't know what to do.
People who were in survival mode during the lockdown, walking back to in harsh summers deserved some entertainment, some easing out. But they got no time.
Who enjoyed lockdown by binge watching? Us, who had the _luxury_ to be bored.
If entertainment or art or even the whole human life is just escapism from reality, I'd rather choose to be the biggest bore.
00:16 Boredom during early motherhood sparked creative ideas
02:22 Boredom ignites the brain's default mode, leading to creative thinking and problem solving.
04:19 Constantly shifting attention leads to brain depletion
06:27 Being mindful of phone usage to increase productivity and creativity.
08:11 Technology triggers attention with design
10:12 Boredom sparks creativity and new ideas
12:03 Bored and Brilliant challenge empowered people to change their phone usage.
13:59 Boredom can lead to brilliance
"Hey, let's meet up so we can be on your phones"
"Sounds GREAT!"
Got bored halfway through video and had this great idea! Go watch something else.
I've got an even better idea!
Whine elsewhere.
chas ames good point.
Michael Deering this did make me chuckle 😩😂
Michael Deering amazing
Legendary
No wonder I learn so much from all these TED talks that very nearly put me to sleep.
Thank you for such an interesting and informative video. This is a very interesting idea about how we can reach for creativity. Boredom can give us opportunities, expand our consciousness. This video proves that when people get bored they get better ideas, they understand what they want and become more intelligent.
This is one of my favorite ted talks. I thought at one point she would discuss meditation. I've tapped into alternate versions of myself and noticed a surge of creativity amongst other things by just saving and focusing my attention. Aaaand now I'm deleting RUclips from my phone.
This is true, but I've noticed ppl hate boredom because it leads to "re-visiting" past tragedies: a crime, bullied, embarrassment, cheating, death, divorce. Everybody LOVES creativity.
Only the best of the best here
this is the reason why 3weeks ago I decided not to use my iphone anymore but instead.. I went and bought 10 years old phone with no internet.. since then I have time to practice yoga and meditate two hours more
It’s a great idea to delete a multitude apps from iPhone. To be honest, sometimes I experienced the way without social networks. For instance, when I’m doing my home assignment, because I don’t want to waste time. Moreover, I totally agree with Manoush Zomorodi about that boring is not bad thing. We can clearly think about what we tired of ect.
Thanks for the talk, Manoush! 👍
This is awesome..!
14:04 when your hand digs right through ground... yeah i am bored
the presenter was so AMA!
Thanks a lot Manouch for raising this interesting issue
9:42 ok this hit me like a truck! damn..
The problem isn't connectivity or technology itself. Our problem is that we can't self-regulate and that technology developers create apps like Facebook and Twitter to make us addicted without noticing, thinking that what happens inside these platforms is important...
This video made me think about how much time I spend on the phone when am bored to death. Dull sticking on the phone is not the best way to deal with boredom. We just lose our concentration. If you look out the window or talk with people you will get much more satisfaction. Phones take up a huge part of our time, making it better and worse. We can spend this time on more useful things than chatting.
It was truely nice
مرسی از حرفای جالبت.
when anyone that exactly cares about a phone taking our lives:
Me: lol bruh
Boredom is outcome of mechanical way living where we are insensitive towards little changes.
So be sensitive and aware about little changes that is going on around you. The moment in which you are is unique. This comes just once.
Can't believe that she's the new host of TED Radio Hour.