Bored and Brilliant

Has your smartphone become your BFF Do you feel bored when you re not checking Facebook or Instagram Bored and Brilliant How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, and explores how we can harness boredom s hidden benefits to become our most productive selves.In 2015, WNYC Studio s Note To Self host Manoush Zomorodi led thousands of her listeners through a week of experiments designed to help them reassess their technology habits, unplug for part of each week and jumpstart their creativity Throughout the book are a series of challenges that will help readers rethink their relationship to their devices without completely leaving the digital world.Zomorodi also explores why putting greater emphasis on doing nothing is vital in an age of constant notifications and digital distractions She speaks with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists about mind wandering what our brains do when we re doing nothing at all, and the link between boredom and creativity Bored and Brilliant is about living smarter and better within a digital world Technology isn t going anywhere, and who would want it to Bored and Brilliant teaches us how to align our gadget use with what we hold dear and true, and find equilibrium in this new digital ecosystem. Read Bored and Brilliant author Manoush Zomorodi – kino-fada.fr I don t know what I was expecting but it wasn t this I can appreciate how this book would be invaluable to some readers but don t believe I was exactly the right audience I believed this would deliver advice on creativity and the cultivation of it in life Instead this was a guide on how to rely less on the distraction of your smart phone Whilst I can see the benefit of this book I found this not to be an issue I had as I already restrict my social media and smart phone usage, throughout the I don t know what I was expecting but it wasn t this I can appreciate how this book would be invaluable to some readers but don t believe I was exactly the ...I did not like this book The premise is that we can becreative if we stop turning to social media when we are bored The book was simplistic, poorly researched, and included no reference section, Even worse, the author, a podcaster , reported her online project as if it was an experiment which it clearly is not I also found the title to be a misnomer The title imp...I am very interested in the topic of phone use and overuse I am not anti technology and neither is the author of this book , but I do find the overuse of phones by much of American society alarming Zomorodi was definitely preaching to the choir with me as a reader.Zomorodi includes research to back up the idea that we arecreative when we allow ourselves to be bored and allow our minds to wander I do not carry my smartphone around in my hand and it is seldom in view when I am out with I am very interested...mobile consumers now spend an average of two hours and fifty seven minutes each day on mobile devices Waiting in line to check out Fire up Candy Crush On your commute Get caught up on blogs or YouTube vids One laaaast round of checks on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter before the theater darkens for the movie previews And then another check when the lights come up to catch what you missed We have the option to never, ever be bored There s always something, somewhere willing to keep mobile consumers now spend an average of two hours and fifty seven minutes each day on mobile devices Waiting in line to check out Fire up Candy Crush On your commute Get caught up on blogs or YouTube vids One laaaast round of checks on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter before the theater darkens for the movie previews And then another check when the lights come up to catch what you missed We have the option to never, ever be bored There s always something, somewhere willing to keep us occupied, and it s rarely farther than a pocket According to M...This gave me so much food for thought about why I have the relationship I have with my technology and the ways I can consider beingconscious of that This isn t anti tech, and Manoush does a great job of giving insight into both sides of the coin she, for example, found herself addicted to Two Dots and wondered why, so she explored why it was a problem for her, as well as interviewed one of the creators of the game and how the addictive mentality could be mined to suck people into suc This gave me so much food for thought about why I have the relationship I have with my technology and the ways I can consider beingconscious of that This isn t anti tech, and Manoush does a great job of giving insight into both sides of the coin she, for example, found herself addicted to Two Dots and wondered why, so she explored why it was a problem for her, as well as inte...I received an e copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.I was interested in the premise of this book the idea that by unplugging and purposefully allowing ourselves to be bored, we could benefit creatively and in other ways I enjoyed the information both studies and interviews with experts that outlined our need for and addiction to technology, specifically our smartphones I did the challenges outlined in the book, which sound surprisingly easy but was harder to exe I received an e copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.I was interested in the premise of this book the idea that by unplugging and pu...This is a simple, friendly book whose premise is that your life can be better if you give yourself a chance to get bored and do some daydreaming In other words, put your phone away It offers a week long series of challenges, one per day, beginning with monitoring your baseline behavior and ending with a capstone exercise in which you use your newfound powers to make sense of your life and set goals I recently started listening to the author s Note to Self podcast, which discusses a lot of the This is a simple, friendly book whose premise is that your life can be better if you give yourself a chance to get bored and do some daydreaming In other words, put your phone away It offers a week long series of challenges, one per day, beginning with monitoring your baseline behavior and ending with a capstone exercise in which you use your newfound powers to make sense of your life and set goals I recently started listening to the author s Note to Self podcast, which discusses a lot of the ideas in this book, but the book pulls it all together, along with the evidence underlying each aspect of the program, and comments from podcast listeners who did the challenges in 2015.I haven t done the challenges yet but just listening to the audiobook has made meaware of when I m tempted to pull out the phone to counter the agony of waiting thirty sec...I ve been interested in figuring out how to focus and minimize the distractions that block me from my writing I started out reading another book about deep focus and the ways to work without distraction Both this book, Bored and Brilliant, and the other had one thing in common, technology The cause of our problems is the enhanced technology we have access to I didn t have a problem writing a paper in 1992 before the internet was introduced to me I didn t have a problem studying for the Bar I ve been interested in figuring out how to focus and minimize the distractions that block me from my writing I started out reading another book about deep focus and the ways to work without distraction Both this book, Bored and Brilliant, and the other had one thing in common, technology The cause of our problems is the enhanced technology we have access to I didn t have a problem w...This book was an excellent impetus for me to interrogate my relationship with my phone and other screens I was able to critically reflect on how addicted I was am to particular apps and technologies I tried some of the challenges in the book designed to detach you from your phone baby Very liberating The point of the book is that we need to be bored without stimulus in order to generate ideas and solve problems Learning to be away from my phone longer has lessened my anxiety and provided This book was an excellent impetus for me to interrogate my relationship with my phone and other screens I was able to critically reflect on how addicted I was am to particular apps and technologies I tried some of the challenges in the book designed to detach you from your phone baby Very liberating The point of the book is that we need to be bored without stimulus in order ...Manoush Zomorodi presents some insights into the ways modern life short circuits creativity, as well as concrete steps to take to enhance creative energy by allowing boredom into our lives I borrowed this one from the library, but I think I ll want my own copy eventually so I can try out h...

• English
• 07 October 2018
Manoush Zomorodi
• Hardcover
• 208 pages
• 1250124956
• Manoush Zomorodi
• Bored and Brilliant