Ultimately, I found that success for each often came down to my ability to endure discomfort and boredom long enough for the desired result to happen along, magically, on its own.
I am happy to delay my NYC return in Salisbury, MD where the Natty Boh is cheap and plentiful, the women tattooed and tight-shirted, and the promise of a bon fire to burn away the boredom is enough to look forward to.
Taking advantage of the growing inclination to avoid even a second of boredom works well enough in the case of most consumer-facing products, but well enough doesn't cut it across the board.
Even the company of geniuses wasn't enough; boredom would always be with him, he realized, as long as he had this huge, historic intelligence.
When people come to me for help with a career change, they are often looking to leave a job due to a bad boss, lack of opportunity, or pure boredom (aka not enough change).
There wasn't much pain in suburbia, but there was enough boredom to set loose a boy's imagination and send him toward "Monty Python," Woody Allen, "Saturday Night Live" and the expanding universe of science-fiction.
While extreme boredom is not nearly enough to get a state into the awful-election finals, Missouri, you do need to think about getting a little variety.
Those craving "a character", someone to market, to save tennis from descending into post-Federer-Murray-Nadal-Djokovic boredom, can't get enough of his freewheeling antics and exuberant tennis.
The trigger in this habit, easily enough, is boredom.
This is in summer mind you, that former bastion of freedom and boredom, when a kid had enough time to count blades of grass and tally the mosquito bites on his leg.
