Jay Shetty
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They were dramatically better.
More ideas, more original ideas, more unusual ideas.
The boredom had done something to their thinking.
Man did a second version.
This time she made the boring task even more passive.
Just reading numbers from a phone book rather than copying them.
Even more boring.
The creativity scores went up even further.
Boredom wasn't the enemy of creative thought.
It was the precondition for it.
But why?
Why would sitting with empty, frustrated restlessness make you more creative?
The answer lives in the most important brain system you might have never heard of.
And I need to spend some real time here because once you understand this, you will never look at an idle moment the same way again.
The default mode network.
This is the most important brain system that no one tells us about.
For most of neuroscience history, researchers studied the brain by giving people tasks to do and watching which regions activated.
Solve a puzzle, this area lights up.
Process language, that area.
Recognize a face, this region.