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Boredom is not the absence of stimulation — it is a self-regulatory signal that your attention is misallocated relative to your current skill level, values, or goals.
Following connections through your knowledge graph generates new insights.
Many innovations come from resolving what seemed like irreconcilable contradictions.
When you bring schemas from different domains into contact during integration, ideas from one domain fertilize thinking in another. The most powerful cognitive breakthroughs happen not within a single field of knowledge but at the boundaries between fields — where a concept developed in one context illuminates a problem in another that specialists within that second context could never see, because their expertise had become a wall as much as a window.
When routine decisions are systematized your creative energy is preserved for novel problems.