How to Be Bored and Brilliant With Manoush Zomorodi

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How to Be Bored and Brilliant, With Manoush Zomorodi 

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In this episode we talk to Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC’s Note to Self and author of Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self. Back in 2015, Manoush wondered if being plugged in all the time to a constant stream of entertainment and information actually made our lives worse. She noticed that we’re never bored—and she wondered, what is that lack of boredom doing to us?

Manoush led her listeners through an experiment to help them unplug—and it was a huge success: after taking part in the experiment listeners reported feeling more creative and productive, and more satisfied with their lives.

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Discussed in This Episode:

• The Bored and Brilliant Challenge
  
• The brain’s default mode network
  
• The benefits of letting your mind wander
  
• How taking photos may impair your memory
  
• How social media affects mental health in young adults
  
• Manoush’s Two Dots addiction
  
• How brain-training apps don’t really work
  
• Jane McGonigal’s TED talk
  
• Using video games to help you deal with drug cravings
  
• Nir Eyal’s Hooked
  
• How changing your phone to grayscale helps with phone addiction
  
• The challenge of Slack addiction
  
• How to find time for deep work
  
• The joys of Boomerang
  
• Why it’s better to take notes in a notebook than a laptop
  
• Hacking your to-do list
  
• How each decision you make burns glucose
  

Our Upgrades of the Week

Every week we like to let you in on the upgrades we’ve made in our own lives. This week we talked about a news app, a healthy-food delivery program, and a calorie counter app.

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October 31, 2017 at 02:43PM