How Boredom Can Lead to Your Most Brilliant Ideas | Manoush Zomorodi | TED
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- Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out and creativity.
Manoush Zomorodi hosts "ZigZag", a business podcast about being human from the TED Audio Collective and Stable Genius Productions. Subscribe to the TED Audio Collective at / tedaudiocollective
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Bored with the work you do? You’re not alone: there’s a growing and global desire to make our jobs more meaningful and create opportunities for others to work with dignity, too. Learn how to chart a path that allows you to be good to yourself, others and the world in Manoush’s TED Course “How to reimagine your career.” Enroll today: tedtalks.social/career
I deleted Facebook last year. Don't miss it at all. In the end I recognized how useless it was. Now I'm addicted more to CZcams though 😒
Ariana same I deleted all my social media except CZcams tho
Ariana : Ditto!
Me too 😩
Ariana Hahaha
Ariana same!
boredom leads to the dark side of youtube
If you're looking for something to do, and at the same time want MORE confidence, social aptitude, and personal capability, *GO TO MY CHANNEL!* I help people with all that, and can help ya with boredom too! lol. appreciate ya!
The sad thing is how right you are.
what is this dark side you speak of?
Brian Leneblowtrees The "Important Videos Playlist"
Nothing is true, Everything is Permitted
thats why i get all my best ideas while walking, in the shower or when trying to sleep
Yea i do that sometimes too but I don’t walk lol
I got my best ideas while in shower😁
The best part about this ted talk is that she pointed out some other the problems with technology without saying its all terrible
Totally agree. The "Tool not taskmaster" comment really landed with me.
I'm here because I'm trying not to be bored.
im here because i want to change
ArgusFPV
I'm here Cuz I wanna see people like hot in the comments section
I'm here b/c "boredom" truly led to my best ideas :D
But that's the point! Try being bored sometime.
Whose here cuz a teacher told them to watch this video via homework???
One of my favorite TED talks! This is the kind of talk that I love, it's cutting edge interesting, very informative, and the best part is that it presents something I can actually do and get results-- as opposed to seeing how brilliant people are changing the world whilst I just nod and think to myself, "I could never do that." Thanks, Manoush, for being brilliant and bringing us along with you. Much appreciated!
I have to watch this to do a project but I'm getting bored watching it.
Same
After watching this video, I wanted to try this practice, because I spend a lot of time behind the phone, not even paying attention to it . I do not always have time to go somewhere and do something because of the fact that I waste time on emptiness, I stopped giving myself and my family enough time, which is very bad. In my opinion,this video is very informative and useful, especially for those who have problems with creativity and boredom. I believe that this program is a good method of combating boredom. For example, if I struggled with boredom,watching TV, sitting in social networks, now I want to change it and do something really useful!
Amazing talk! We all need to pay attention to this very carefully! I have been living like that for 2 years, and my life is completely changed! I am so much stress-free, conscious and so much life..
Wow. The video was literally changing my mind of boredom. I thought that boredom is one of the most useless things in the World. But saw results of Boredom others and how it connects with creativity, I realized that have boredom isn’t bad and can really help me.
So after watching video, I decided to try to delete some apps and do something without my phone. I hope that at the end of this challenge I will find some useful for me.
You can tell her skill set learned on field during journalism came handy as evidenced from her eloquent, trendy and catchy style. Well given talk!! Thoroughly enjoyed.
I literally felt so bored today I ended up searching it up online, and this is where i am.
This video completely changed my mind. Being in a boredom is not so bad, and even very useful. You can plunge into your thoughts and come up with some useful ideas, instead of sitting on social networks, that spend our free time
This project actually sounds motivating, and the idea that the periods of time when you are bored to death can be a key for creativity is fascinating. It's kinda obvious tho, since when you can't sit still, you zone out of this world, imagining the big picture of situation. I noticed myself that when tasks that im doing are too repetitive, i tend to get more creative with the approach, and suddenly it becomes much easier to do them. I think that mind in such situations is basically desperate to escape dull and uneventful experience, trying to prevent this experience from happening again. Sometimes you don't need a source of information like a phone, you can just imagine something on your own.
I was impressed with the video . I think the use of my phone is the way of avoiding the boredom . When I check my mail or text with friend , I lose concentration and fed up with just so. I will try to avoid using unnecessary applications and checking mails. I think that it helps me to be more creative
"Delete the app that you're most addicted to"
*Deletes youtube and stop watching the video*
Exactly
You can't delete CZcams 🙄
yo i dont think you can deate youtube
You can delete CZcams sometimes like on my I pad I can but with my phone I can’t but you can shut it down
@@optimisticcreature7960 you cant delte youtube.
My inner procrastinator needed to hear this 😸
I deleted social media from my phone years ago, and I’ve worked hard towards my dreams and achieved them. I look back at my peers and they’re still absorbed online. It takes away so much from our lives and we don’t realize it
Well, if you´re having depression, it´s sometimes better to distract yourself than to have time to think too much.
I would agree but checking your phone probably doesn't do nearly enough to distract yourself this is mainly talking about getting rid of time taking quick checks that dont help
But you shouldn't check your phone. Instead you should do exercise
Sim1234 check "Noah Elkrief's" CZcams videos on depression. I guarantee you won't have depression anymore. He also has videos on many other topics like anxiety, anger, you name it!
your actualy hurting people telling them that watching some youtube videos will cure there depression if the really have it is selling them on something that wont help if someone really has depression they shouldent be so easaly cured.
maxybaer123 he's not the typical wishful thinking, "just think positve" guy. Just check him out.
She's so charismatic, i love it
I have found this very satisfying. I my self found that many of my best ideas came when I was really bored.
OMG! This (4:02) is exactly what happend last sunday!!!! It was my first day completely without internet conection and that was exactly what I did. I planed 8 years ahead of my life, MBA, changing jobs and getting married included.
Love it. Thank you. I will take some steps to cut down on time wasting on social media apps and take more time to think and create.
It's an interesting thought that creativity cannot exist without boredom 😮 certainly there is a difference when using social media as a tool rather than mindlessly scrolling through the feed but for the most part it's by being away from our phones and in a "default state" that we begin to generate ideas!
This is just a comment in the void, but i've got a week of holidays left and i'm doing nothing all day except being on my phone, so i promise to myself i'll spend at least two hours without even looking at my phone and doing something productive instead, like i've been meaning to do for months. This presentation was really inspiring (but i'm not deleting tumblr or instagram sry i'm too weak)
I totally agree with the speaker, as it has been my permanent problem for last 2 years. Social networks grab all our free time, that we can spend on ourselves or our family and friends. Checking mails and notifications became some kind of disease nowadays. So the challenge offered by speaker seems hard but necessary for a lot of us. In this case I would try to avoid checking my phone all the time.
This is the biggest realization I’ve had. Boredom and the urge to not go insane leads me to some pretty fun ideas and just being me.
Very well done and thought provoking talk! I'd like to try this out, a little afraid to but sounds like a challenge and could be fascinasting what happens.
I thought I was the only one that compared the birth of my child to iPhone release dates.
PowahSlap Entertainmint lol, I just saw your comment on the new vox video about Fahrenheit
Bored people should spend their time learning the metric system.
Nope there are others as sad as yourself.
LOL I just saw you on a "It's okay to be smart" video
Sept 12th born here :D
wow thanks TED
loved this video
will work on this now
love you once again
I liked this video there were mentioned some interesting things about boredom. For me, boredom isn’t a bad thing. I think it improve my imagination and gives me a time to spend with benefits.
thank you for enlightening with this fact.
No wonder I learn so much from all these TED talks that very nearly put me to sleep.
Thanks a lot Manouch for raising this interesting issue
I am absolutely agree with Manous. Boredom is a typical sense for a lot of people, but I feel myself very productive after a period of boredom. The amount of time that we spend in the Internet is enormous and we should try to do something with this. All that we should do is to reduce the time when we surf the net and if you have really nothing to do than you should simply have a rest. We should change our attitude to boredom and understand that it is not bad for us
Ted talks and looks like spoken poetry. So much inflection and up and down cadence. ACTING!
Manoush Zomorodi is amazing and brilliant ❤️
I did this of my own volition a few years back. I not only deleted apps, but I also stopped using my phone on the toilet and stopped watching TV/CZcams while eating. The difference is amazing, very easy to slip back into bad habits, I have to continually check myself.
Indeed a healthy talk to address the growing hyperactivity and overstimulation in present generation.
Regards from Pakistan. 🇵🇰
I don’t exactly know why, but I just suddenly started crying. The internet, my IPad, my Phone, I’ve been so vicious to them. And this truly inspired me to improve. To know that everything’s ok. That I have to start trying.
Waoooo it's an amazing speaking. Sometimes, I feel very strange because I haven't social media apps in my cell, I haven't social media counts, I take times to leave my cell very away to me, I enjoy a meeting to much when I pay attention and I am pausing other activities. Also I haven't active notifications and I can't answer all the time Whatsapp because I am busy in other things. People angry with me for that but I don't understand why they don't use the calls. If I can't answer Whatsapp immediately people can't stand it. It seems that everybody in this times need all people in a kind of 'Multitasking mod' and with their cellphones in their hands ever. World need listen to you and live this project "boring and brilliant"
Excellent presentation. Well done Manoush!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank YOU!
I agree.
Because of boredom which I feel when I have no Internet connection or no friend to speak with, I start to walk around in my home or out side and SEARCH for problems and imperfections in myself or in my real world, then I open my smartphone and open the note and write all the problems which I face and realize, then I THINK about all the possible solutions and write them in the note.
I consider many of the solutions which I made as creative and unique solutions; which just need to be applied.
best ted talk ever !!
It was truely nice
مرسی از حرفای جالبت.
Any innovation is created for knowledge. you thinking since 1980, 1990. and 2000. so time of Revolutionary power, social communication and the hearts of all
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt! (I really enjoyed this, thank you!)
This is awesome..!
Super important information. Hope everyone gets it.
beliefless dogmasless Because too many people are walking around with their heads down on their phones doing nothing. On social network but don't socialize with those around them in reality.
Such a good talk.
7:17 You gotta pump those numbers up those are rookie numbers
My highest screen time is 16hours
noticed the music at the end with the speech , nice detail TED
Tks for this video.
Amazing talk! It would be interesting doing the same experiment in 2024
i use almost 20 mins everyday to watch ted x talks but its worth it!
One thing this lecture brought up that it was very interesting. She said that this generation that has never not been connected lack creativity... does that mean that lately peoples retrograde thinking and behaviour towards problems in the world are partially caused by too much time in their phones and social (internet) media?
Thank you very much sir from Thailand info
the only exception is school...
Because students are not given autonomy. They know they can't come up with ideas and pursue them, they're boxed in to be programmed as obedient ISO-norm worker slaves.
+Adrian As a HS teacher I could not agree more!
we should reprogram them to fix earth now....and make me coffee
It's funny because doing nothing is exactly what I do to avoid being productive.
I'd go walk for 2 hours, do some chores or mundane tasks as a way to procrastinate.
So as much as I can understand that constant connectivity can be bad I can't really agree with "when you're doing nothing you're actually being your most productive".
Because staring at the window 8 hours a day thinking about life won't get me a job, it'll just get me a depression.
You went walking for two hours, it's call exercising. I don't think sitting on the coach is burning anything.
It's about creating ideas.
Shes so charismatic
Wow so insightful !
This video shows an interesting perspective on 'boredom' and how it allows our minds to reach for creativity.
fantastic talk!
I don't think boredom is the right focus here, rather I think its just that being constantly immersed in internet content consumes our mind. Nowadays we have so much content; it serves as entertainment but also as distractions. A video completely consumes your attention for the time that you watch it and you're likely going to be unable to think about anything else. Being able to take yourself off it ,however, lets you start to think about a million other things. I think that's what is happening when you walk the dog, take a shower, sit on the balcony. You don't have to be bored, just aware.
HelpfulJjam it can also serve as knowledge
Thank you! Yea I don’t like this whole idea of being bored, rather be present and self-aware
For me boredom often leads to existential crisis
Brilliant Speech!
I enjoyed watching this on my phone.
Best TED Talk ever
People are always busy, sometimes need a rest. Sometimes it can be boring about such a break, but in such a short or long time, you can find other important things, and you can have a chance to look at the world wide with your mind. The feeling of boredom is also one of the many emotions of a person, and this feeling is also a necessary emotion for a person. This is boring, and some people have a lifetime study, and they can give you an opportunity to think about the most fundamental problems.
New Challenge: Do this during quaratine
Great Talk!!
Too good- must listen
Only the best of the best here
eye opening.
It's not just about boredom. It's about having impulse control and being able to delay gratification. A whole generation is growing up without that and it will cause problems in society, like higher crime. People are addicted to contact, to not be alone with their thoughts. They're often not even used to being alone with their own thoughts and that's why they experience boredom when they're not addictively connecting to others. There's probably not a lot going on in there when you're connected to others like that all the time, unless you know to unplug and read a book, or something. Thinking for yourself is a skill you won't develop if you're never challenged to do it (great tool to control the masses, by the way). People are walking around with a brain on Facebook and it's not making them better people. Impulse control, for instance, would stop people from checking their phones while driving and would have as a direct result less traffic accidents and less animals killed on the road. But you only care about your instant gratification fix, so you risk the life of others, just to check your social media. It's pathetic, selfish, infantile behavior. The zombie apocalypse is already here, brought to you by the fomo junkies. Nothing funny about that behavior of yours, lady, just very very sad.
NCL kinda agreeing although that was kinda agressive
not everyone in the computer generations has impulse control problems I just have a problem with this opinion because it implies that phones and computers are some evil world destroyer
+Sara Sihvo Kinda aggressive? NCL needs to take a deep breath, count backwards from ten, then maybe play a couple of rounds of Candy Crush to calm down. Like you, I agree with NCL's premise, but it seems as if NCL has already succumbed to the dreaded CZcams Attack Syndrom, which causes normal speech to be converted into a sort of vitriol laced with a superiority complex. And the saddest part is that many of these folks carry on for years without even knowing they have contracted such a malady, all the while inciting more people into adopting an equally aggressive nature by responding to their invectives. When seated at a keyboard and safely posting under a pseudonym, they are in a state of constant readiness to pounce on the first person that crosses their path. Sadly, I am confident that my words will be summarily dismissed as nonsense and interpreted as my own form of ranting for which I will become the new target, so I'll just shut up now.
Thanks!
I'm only here cause we need to watch it for homework
Really me too
Same here
Thanks for the talk, Manoush! 👍
amazing ted talk.
I love this.
thank you
Best video on this topic. 👍
Thank you for such an interesting and informative video. This is a very interesting idea about how we can reach for creativity. Boredom can give us opportunities, expand our consciousness. This video proves that when people get bored they get better ideas, they understand what they want and become more intelligent.
Being bored is extremely useful all of what she had said is true
Awesome speech
She reminds me of Kimmy Schmidt (from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). I feel like If Kimmy had to do a TED talk, this is exactly how it would be haha
I loved this talk! Just thought that all the way through it
Great ted talk quite scary how addictive our smart phones are we are constantly seeking fun and not exploring the magic that can happen whilst we are bored. I need to stop distracting myself off social media now need to use WhatsApp and CZcams sensibly very addictive stuff like drugs to the brain
Thank you very much for such an interesting and informative video. I also once tried to spend time without a phone. I was able to spend time with my family and do some housework and homework. I believe this experiment was successful as I began to use it less.
I see lecture filled with love. How did you get that lovely voices from clients? All voices very pleasant/luky. Thanks for this level. (From Russia)
This video is really underrated
Excellent
This is one of my favorite ted talks. I thought at one point she would discuss meditation. I've tapped into alternate versions of myself and noticed a surge of creativity amongst other things by just saving and focusing my attention. Aaaand now I'm deleting CZcams from my phone.
"Fascinating" Papa Bless 😊
"Hey, let's meet up so we can be on your phones"
"Sounds GREAT!"
I gave up tv, social media, and friendships about 7 years ago. After dinner, I “unplug” and force myself to boredom. I started journaling business ideas and other things. My imagination has increased exponentially.
I was watching this video when I was bored, then after that I hoped something brilliant idea comes up
Digital literacy.......
Please please include this in our education system....
Children are our future and they need to know how to self-regulate
Awesome