You ever lay down and think about death?
Kind of like a creeping rot…
That’s what boredom is. It’s not harmless but it’s akin to death.
It’s the kind of thing that turns your brain into mush and makes your soul feel like it’s been left out in the sun too long.
(Obviously not here in England though cause it looks like it’s about to piss down tonight where I am)
But yeah. Nobody likes their soul feel brittle, cracked, and useless. That’s what boredom does before you inevitably want to crawl up into a ball and die.
But there is a cure. There is an antidote and it’s simple.
Will it cost you $997 to discover? Nope.
Just learn something.
Anything. Pick up a skill, dive into a topic, chase after something that sparks even a flicker of curiosity.
It doesn’t have to be related to what you do for work, or even what you think you’re “supposed” to care about.
I’ve just gotten back into music production and switched from using one piece of software to another. It’s hard because they work completely differently from one another. But the thing is I’m learning.
I mean you can take up woodworking. Learn to bake bread. Watch documentaries about black holes or ancient civilisations or competitive sheep shearing (yes, that’s a thing). It doesn’t matter.
What matters is that you’re feeding your brain, giving it something to chew on, something to stretch and grow with.
The cool thing is…
Whatever you learn will bleed into what you do. Always.
Bake bread, and you’ll start to see how patience and precision changes everything.
Study black holes, and suddenly you’re thinking about the vast, terrifying beauty of the unknown and how that applies to your own work. Even weird shit like sheep shearing teaches you something about focus, skill, and the weirdly satisfying joy of a job done well.
Learning keeps you sharp. It keeps you curious. And curiosity is the magic sauce for everything.
Without it, you’re coasting. And coasting is another word for stagnation, and stagnation is just boredom dressed up in a slightly fancier outfit that covers your own flesh vessel.
So, what are you learning today? And if the answer is “nothing,” then here’s your sign to fix that. Go pull on a thread. Follow it. See where it leads.
I mean the more you learn the more you become or whatever it is the fancy identity and belief shifting guru’s try sell to you.
Stephen Walker