Keith Adams
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1,358 appearances
10 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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the upside and downside of downtime.
First up is Helen.
And then I had three children and the constant refrain of I'm bored was driving me slightly up the wall.
So I began to look into the advantages of boredom and saw that there are many and actually many of the best ideas have
been generated during periods of fallowness and boredom.
So I feel like mindfulness has had a rebrand and it was boredom's turn.
I think there is much to be said for staring at a wall or staring out of the window and all of my school reports would accuse me of daydreaming.
I now feel a sense of pride over.
And my children, if they are allowed to be bored, then that's when the magic happens.
That's when they create things or famously get along, which is rare but beautiful.
I've done all the research which backs up everything that Helen has been saying.
It's that lack of stimulation that leads us to search.
And if you imagine you're kind of like a search engine, constantly searching for stimulation.
And when we're not getting it, we're just looking more and more.
And that can lead us to negative things.
So the things that we do to try and unbore ourselves can be harmful.
So when we are bored, we can get that stimulation by being more creative because creativity is a very stimulating process.
And that's why there can be advantages to boredom, because it leads us to go into our own brains to look for that stimulation rather than getting in externally.
Absolutely.
I tend to write nonfiction, but I've just finished my second novel and none of that would have happened had I filled the idle moments.
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