Episode 540: Boredom Is Not a Problem to Solve

We have become so skilled at filling silence that we have forgotten what silence is for. We reach for the phone before we finish a thought — and in doing so, we cut off access to some of the most important thinking we will ever do.

The brain's most important inner work — consolidating memory, processing emotion, generating insight — happens in the gaps between stimulation, not during it. Courtney explains the neuroscience of the default mode network and makes a compelling case for engineering boredom back into your life as a daily health practice.

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