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Most people's lives are determined by how they choose to cure their boredom.
What's that mean? Oh man. The story of that came from my friend, my YouTube editor. We were out... getting dinner one night, and he said he wanted to start a company called Bored, just a little passion project. And it was because he had been bored for so long in his life that the only options that he saw were to do the typical things that you do when you're bored.
You scroll on your phone, maybe you watch Netflix, you... hang out with friends, there isn't really something to build towards, right? And so I kind of ideated that with him for a decent amount of time because the reason he wanted to start that specifically was to give people, help people create a project that they could work on that would help cure their boredom.
And so that kind of ties into another tweet I wrote where if you're bored, build. So build your body, build your business, build... anything really, just focus that boredom towards something that isn't giving the opportunity for entropy to take hold.
You'll know Parkinson's law, work expands to fill the time given to it. This almost feels like it could be Coe's law, which would be life expands to fill the boredom given to it.
What's funny is that I have a Coase law, but it was for creative work. So, man, what was it? It was something along the lines of the same thing where it's creative work. The work expands. The results expand to fit the time allotted for completion, where my whole thing with that is since I... Didn't have a job for too long.
I had worked part-time jobs for quite a while, but I was freelance pretty quickly out of a job.
And what I started to realize is that when you progress through freelance work, and then I got introduced to social media and digital products, physical products, other things that I just wasn't aware of at the time, it was very interesting how I could make so much more without increasing the amount of work that I did.
Yeah, that is interesting. So just to round out the boredom thing, it kind of feels to me like if you don't have something to take up your time, your habits and your behavior will sort of default to the path of least resistance. Is that fair to say? Absolutely. Yeah, interesting. Okay, what about hard work? Do you think there's a delusion around hard work?
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