Can’t Sit Still Without Distraction? (Train Your Brain With THIS Daily Practice & Embrace Boredom!)

Hey, it's Jay and today I want to talk to you about how to be bored. Maybe there's a lot of you out there who don't know how to be bored anymore. You're always distracted. You're always running to the next thing. You're always trying to fill your gaps, be busy.

Maybe you struggle with dealing with the thoughts in your head when you actually slow down and pause. If you want to know how boredom can be powerful for your brain, This episode is for you, and if you want to know how you can change your life and actually use it to your advantage, don't skip this episode. In 1654, the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote a sentence that I think might be the most underrated, most urgent, most terrifying truth ever put on paper. He wrote, All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Think about that. This was 1654 no smartphones, no television, no radio, no newspapers delivered to your door, no telegraph. The most sophisticated entertainment technology available was a harpsichord and a good candle. And Pascal looked at the people around him, the richest, most educated, most powerful people in France, and concluded that the root cause of war, corruption, cruelty, recklessness, and misery was that nobody could just sit still.

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