This blog post was inspired by the article “Bored…And Brilliant? A Challenge To Disconnect From Your Phone” which I heard on NPR’s All Tech Considered while driving home. Please enjoy.

Tomorrow is a fiction. And yesterday is a closed chapter. But today, sir, today is now, and now is present. So open yourself to the wonders of the moment that stands before you. Put down your mobile device for a bit. Loosen your grip – and your gaze – from your smart phone for a moment, just one, and let yourself become saturated with boredom.* Wonderful, delicious, fat free boredom, the kind that comes with washing dishes and dusting living room furniture. Busy work that gives the conscious a break while your body gets lost in the under appreciated bliss of low intensity, high repetition house chores. Or go more extreme and stare at a wall for a bit. Let the boredom seep in like the way blood does in the Shining*. Become overwhelmed by it. And then, once your so bored that you’ve become cognizant of the fact, see what comes to mind? Disengage as to allow the unconscious to do its thing. I like my unconscious. A lot. Yeah, Freud was a controversial dude – take your pic of reasons – but he was spot on about the unconscious. It exists. It’s there, waiting to reveal itself to you and any truths you may have been hiding from.

Improvisers, and other creative folk who hawk their performance wares in front of live audiences on drunken Friday nights (or on any night of varying degrees of sobriety), do not discount the treasures that lay in your unconscious. Inside of you maybe some profound diamond in the rough, but your must let yourself relax and disengage in order to access it. Put down the phone and stare into infinity.

Fernando

*Do all these things after reading this article

*Kubrick’s version

* Oh, and here is the article – http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/12/376717870/bored-and-brilliant-a-challenge-to-disconnect-from-your-phone