Brain Food: Great Ideas Thrive in Silence

Note to Self: You need silence to imagine a brighter future. Your mind requires boredom to carve out a destiny for yourself. In a world full of distractions, boredom is no longer a mere “productivity hack”—it’s one of the highest virtues. Protect your boredom. At all costs.

My central life-long passion to know myself and to know God has led me deep into myself, meeting all that I find there. Sometimes my focus has been solely psychological, at other times purely mystical. I have needed many times to relearn that the source of enduring happiness is within and is not dependent on any outer situation, person, place, or t

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Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click i... See more