Building comfort with boredom equals building one’s ability to focus. If you can build your ability to focus, you build your ability to do deep work. Deep work is the important work that moves you toward the goals you have in life. Checking email is not deep work. Deep work is building and creating art (whatever your art is.)
But it all begins with building comfort with being bored. Can we stand in line without looking at our phones? Can we sit and think or dream rather than scroll on TikTok? Or are we so uncomfortable being bored that we can’t resist “scratching the itch?”