Make Boredom Great Again — To Do More, First Do Nothing
The secret to success is not in working harder. Find out what it is.
Let me confess: I would rather hammer out a scathing 500-word reply to @anon56749846 on Twitter than write 500 words in my novel.
Why? Because replying is engaging, reactive, immediate.
Writing my novel? It’s just plain boring. And therein lies the rub.
Writers aren’t writing. Readers aren’t reading. Coders aren’t coding.
All across the globe, work isn’t getting done — not because it’s hard, but because it’s boring. Work lacks 30-second sound bites, snappy memes, and cats just being cats.
We — and by “we,” I mean “me,” though I’m sure you can relate — have lost our tolerance for boredom.
At this point, the only thing standing between me and becoming a published author isn’t the slow-moving tedium of the publishing industry or the cutthroat book sales market. It’s my inability to sit still and hammer away at my keyboard for more than 10 minutes without reaching for my phone.
It was bad. I knew it.
I remember being a voracious reader as a child and teenager. What happened to me? I am guessing the same thing that is happening to everyone…
