Right? I like to warn people about the initial hurdle of boredom, and encourage them to frame it as an opportunity to learn to become fascinated by things that don't demand our attention. Isn't it so paradoxically freeing to learn to navigate boredom?
The rewards are worth the effort. It's like falling in love with being alive, but it looks like sitting there with your eyes closed.
There's a line from John Cage about this that I love: “If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring at all.”
"Your mindfulness practice needs to become fascinating to be sustainable." Amazing, and true. We can't be bored and sustain something like this.
Right? I like to warn people about the initial hurdle of boredom, and encourage them to frame it as an opportunity to learn to become fascinated by things that don't demand our attention. Isn't it so paradoxically freeing to learn to navigate boredom?
The rewards are worth the effort. It's like falling in love with being alive, but it looks like sitting there with your eyes closed.
There's a line from John Cage about this that I love: “If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring at all.”