The challenge people encounter is not that they can’t come up with ideas; it’s that they aren’t given enough time to think about them.
That’s why creativity strikes when we’re doing the most mundane acts— taking a shower, walking the dog, taking out the trash, cleaning your room, etc. Such acts are so boring that we want our thoughts to take us elsewhere.
There’s no better example than Neil Gaiman. His power comes from believing boredom helps stimulate creativity. When bored, our minds want to be filled with entertainment, with imaginative stories and amusing anecdotes.
Ideas aren’t any different. When bored, we start thinking about things we never had time to think; ask questions we never thought about asking; and try things we never considered trying. It’s a power that only arrives once you exhausted everything else.
To be so bored you can’t help creating something out of nothing is to have arrived at idea land.
Here’s my inspiration for the day.