hi I'm Luke nice to meet you
that was 10 seconds but it felt like you
didn't it some of you were wondering
what was going on did you really lose
control this talk did I really paid for
that seriously others will be like all
right I've got 10 seconds to check my
instagram but what if i told you that
those past 10 seconds where the most
creative movement of your entire day
what if while looking at me standing in
front of you saying nothing you start to
think about something that has in a
relationship with the takamine right now
because you got bored what it what if
you let yourself wonder within your
minds because you got bored and what if
i told you that you got creative because
you got bored well that is what your
experience when you're daydreaming and
what's great about daydreaming is that
it comes from nothing you are simply
there looking at me standing in front of
you and you started to think and then
you notice the rush of new thoughts of
new ideas of new perspective why do we
always have the greatest ideas when we
expect them the least I'm in the shower
and bang I have an epiphany equals MC
squared there's a hole in the ozone
layer or I finally found out how to
finish my paper due tomorrow you created
the perfect environment for something
called the default mode network it's
when you're recalling for memories when
you're planning for the future or even
when you're daydreaming is the free
association of thoughts within your mind
and that only happened
when your mind is resting at that moment
particular parts of your brain our way
much more active than normal especially
in the frontal lobe which is the
important part for condition memory and
learning so when you're daydreaming
you're not creating anything no but
you're channeling spontaneous thoughts
about interesting problems there's this
guy he's a canoe t'en who was one of the
most influential scientists of our world
at the time he was trying to understand
how gravity works he tried all the
possibilities all the theories and all
the experiences but he was still unable
to find the right explanation so one day
he took her woken apart and sat below an
apple tree and started to think to
daydream then he witnessin Apple falling
from that tree and that was his epiphany
that apple was just the spark that
linked all his thoughts all his work and
all his ideas in a completely new way
that made sense to him he finally found
out the explanation to gravity and that
can only be possible because he was
daydreaming because his mind was not
focusing on something specific so you
have the opportunity to live that Newton
moment all of you but here's the thing
there are no to the list to be creative
sorry about that but instead think of a
moment when you fail inspired when you
felt empowered it can happen anytime
anywhere when you're taking a shower
when you're walking in a park or even
wanting waiting for the bus those
situations will maximize the opportunity
to leave that Newton moment leave them
again and let your brain do the work so
we should embrace boredom you should
embrace boredom you should be happy to
be bored because it's an incredible
source of creativity it gives us the
opportunity to have new ideas that could
disrupt our world to adopt a new
perspective to think outside of the box
or simply to consolidate our experiences
within our mind you simply have to let
yourself go but here's the big challenge
think about all the ads were exposed to
all the TV shows were looking at think
about all the emails pop-ups
notifications alarms think about all the
time we spent on facebook Instagram
snapchat we're exposed to a constant
stream of information from our
surrounding we're supposed to be
efficient to be productive to be
open-minded we're supposed to think
about a thousand things at the same time
during a single day but that ends up
with us not having the time to think we
pick up our phones more than 150 times
during a single day that is insane and
most of the times were doing nothing and
it happened exactly at the moment when
we start to feel for them so we don't
have the opportunity anymore to get
bored or we don't take it and we fear
for them and that's killing a potential
of creativity our minds seaboard them as
something that we should
avoid as much as possible with are we
going to die from boredom certainly not
we think that being bored makes us
unproductive that we're useless in an
extremely active society but there is a
study from the University of lung higher
proving that boredom is an awesome
source of creativity and productivity
they selected two groups of people the
first one had to learn a phone number by
heart for 20 minutes the second one had
to copy that same number for 20 minutes
which was really boring and then the ass
booth group at the end of those 20
minutes to do something creative with a
simple glass of water well the second
group found way much more possibilities
than the first one see here we're not
judging the quality of the work but
we're looking at the number of
possibilities they found out from a
single glass of water and that is
creativity so bored them is productive
in a way it gives us the opportunity to
have new experiences to have new ideas
that could disrupt our world to think
outside of the box and simply to adopt a
new perspective so I'm not calling for a
massive Facebook suicide or a total
banishment of all the ads because that
doesn't work but ask yourself why why do
we fear boredom why do you fear boredom
why do you pick up your phone why are
you checking your Facebook every two
minutes why do you look at the TV show
for the third time
and I can guarantee you that the answer
to that question will have a tremendous
impact in your life so please enjoy
those 10 seconds
thank you
you